Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Volume IV Number 2: Explorations in the department of Peten Guatemala and Adjacent Region Topoxte; Yaxha; Benqu

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Author: Teobert Maler (1842-1917) Year: 1908 Publisher: Peabody Museum Press Place: Cambridge Description: 55-127+[44 plate] pages with drawings, illustrations, figures, site planes and errata. Folio (14" x 11") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Volume IV Number 2. First edition. Teobert Maler settled in Yucatán with small house in the town of Ticul, where he set up a photographic studio and learned the Maya language. However he spent most of his time in the forests, accompanied by a few Maya to help clear the jungle from the ruins and carry Maler's photographic equipment. He started off visiting major sites already well-known, such as Chichen Itza and Uxmal, but zealously followed all leads and became the first to document many new ruins. At Chichen, he lived in the ruins for 3 months, and documented the site much more fully than had earlier visitors. Over the next years, Maler also made investigations of many remote sites in the el Petén region of Guatemala and along the course of the Usumacinta River. Maler became disgusted by the then common practice of 19th century antiquarians and archeologists of removing interesting sculptures from the sites to send to cities in Europe or North America. Maler noted the damage to the sites this often caused. He became dedicated to the notion that the ruins should be preserved intact, and wrote extensively to the Mexican government advocating t

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