New #TheMayanist issue, co-edited by Sarah Newman and Franco Rossi, on #Maya #Ontology through the lens of #Anthropology, #Archaeology, and #Epigraphy.
#Art by Lucerito Ochoa Say.
www.goafar.org/themayanist

New (12th) issue of The Mayanist just released!
#Bilingual, #Open-access, #illustrated #journal on the ancient #Maya. Beyond #archaeology, this issue is all about #epigraphy. #Watercolor #art by Lucerito Ochoa Say.
www.goafar.org/themayanist

This new translation of a 2020 The Mayanist article "De Belice a Bagan: Enmarcando un análisis comparativo de las sociedades tropicales" by Gyles Iannone, completes our 2nd entire #bilingual issue. Art by Aaron Alfano.
Find it here: www.goafar.org/themayanist
#archaeology #Maya #openaccess

Can you name the site?
#ancientbluesky #Maya #ancientmaya #ancientarchitecture #archaeology

As always, it's an honour to see one my photos (of La Corona Element 56, excavated in 2015) used by a press to which I contributed. It would be even more fun if I had either been asked (I would of course have agreed), or even told about it 🤷
#epigraphy #archaeology #ancientbluesky #Maya #Guatemala

Every weekday #morning, I walk both of my girls to garderie, and then #walk to campus for work (1.5 km). These days, at 815am, the sunrise is spectacular. #Proximity, as a life choice, is a vastly underrated way to impact one's carbon foot print. But in many contexts, it is also a precious luxury.

I miss #Chiapas. In #Palenque back in 2018.
#Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Maya

On Jan 2025 docket: launch and teach 3 courses, support 3 RAs, write and submit tenure dossier, edit journal issue, wrap up and submit 19-chapter volume, submit 3 internal and 1 major external grant applications, start writing new book.
#academiclife #publishandperish

Y un nuevo artículo traducido del Mayanist.
"Observaciones basadas en la fotografía por transiluminación de la Relación de las cosas de Yucatán de Diego de Landa" por Harri Kettunen. Watercolor by Aaron Alfano.
www.goafar.org/themayanist
#Mayanist #Maya #ancientbluesky #epigraphy

I'm quite impressed with this book by Amanda Podany. As a #Mayanist, the perspective is enchanting. The epigraphic record for #cuneiform tablets is mind-blowing.
I now know that the 1st to ever be named in written history, Kushim, was an administrator in charge of beer production.
#ancientbluesky

Since 2019, I've edited The Mayanist: an open-access, peer-reviewed, billingual, and illustrated journal on all things Maya. We ask for no $ to publish, opening the door to diverse authors. Read it for free here: goafar.org/themayanist
#Archaeology #Maya #Ancientbluesky #Anthropology #openaccess

Main plaza of Sacul, in the Maya Mountains, near the Guatemala/Belize Border. Sacul is a truly amazing site, blending a Central Belizean and Peter style of architecture. Hard to reach, but worth the hike.
#Archaeology #Maya #Peten #Guatemala #AncientBsky

Canadian winters have a special way of fanning my nostalgia for the tropical forest of Peten.
#Guatemala #Peten #macaw

Back in 2021, I collaborated with watercolorist extraordinaire Aaron Alfano to produce this amazing reconstruction of the support area of the Later Classic Maya palace of La Corona, Guatemala. I still love this piece very much.
#archaeology #watercolor #ancientmaya #palace #reconstruction

Two superposed thrones. Becan, Campeche.

Plan de Ayutla, Chiapas.