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- catalog abstract ""In this biography, the first published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins." "Maudslay, the grandson of a famous English inventor and engineer, spent his formative adult years in the South Seas as a junior official in Great Britain's Colonial Office. Despite his exotic experiences, he did not find his true vocation until the age of thirty-one, when he arrived in Guatemala." "Maudslay played a crucial role in exploring and documenting the monuments and architecture of the ancient Maya ruins at Palenque, Copan, Chichen Itza, and other sites previously unknown. His photographs and plaster casts have proven to be invaluable in the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics. Personal resources allowed him to undertake fieldwork at a time when no institution provided such support. He made plaster casts of large stone monuments, accurate maps of sites, and painstaking recordings of inscriptions. His Biologia Centrali-Americana, a multivolume compendium of photographs, drawings, plans, and text published almost a century ago, remains an essential foundation for Maya studies. Perhaps Maudslay's greatest legacy is his magnificent collection of glass-negative photographs, many of which are reproduced in this book."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12519387.
- catalog coverage "Central America Antiquities.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""In this biography, the first published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins." "Maudslay, the grandson of a famous English inventor and engineer, spent his formative adult years in the South Seas as a junior official in Great Britain's Colonial Office. Despite his exotic experiences, he did not find his true vocation until the age of thirty-one, when he arrived in Guatemala." "Maudslay played a crucial role in exploring and documenting the monuments and architecture of the ancient Maya ruins at Palenque, Copan, Chichen Itza, and other sites previously unknown. His photographs and plaster casts have proven to be invaluable in the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics. Personal resources allowed him to undertake fieldwork at a time when no institution provided such support. He made plaster casts of large stone monuments, accurate maps of sites, and painstaking recordings of inscriptions. His Biologia Centrali-Americana, a multivolume compendium of photographs, drawings, plans, and text published almost a century ago, remains an essential foundation for Maya studies. Perhaps Maudslay's greatest legacy is his magnificent collection of glass-negative photographs, many of which are reproduced in this book."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Background and Schooling -- Cambridge and Guatemala -- Fiji -- Samoa -- Tonga -- Quirigua and Tikal -- Yaxchilan -- Quirigua -- Copan -- Highlands and Pine Ridge -- Chichen Itza -- Palenque -- Marriage -- To the Highlands and Copan with Annie -- Zavaleta -- Biologia Centrali-Americana -- The end of Maudslay, Sons and Field -- Bernal Diaz and other works -- Last years -- Tributes -- A backward glance -- Maudslay's donations and bequests -- Alfred Maudslay's Family Tree -- Annie Maudslay's Family Tree.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-314) and index.".
- catalog extent "323 p., [48] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "080613450X (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "Central America Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Central America".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.08/092 21".
- catalog subject "Archaeologists Central America Biography.".
- catalog subject "Archaeologists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Epigraphists Central America Biography.".
- catalog subject "F1435.M44 G73 2002".
- catalog subject "Inscriptions, Mayan History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931.".
- catalog subject "Maya architecture Conservation and restoration.".
- catalog subject "Mayas Antiquities.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Background and Schooling -- Cambridge and Guatemala -- Fiji -- Samoa -- Tonga -- Quirigua and Tikal -- Yaxchilan -- Quirigua -- Copan -- Highlands and Pine Ridge -- Chichen Itza -- Palenque -- Marriage -- To the Highlands and Copan with Annie -- Zavaleta -- Biologia Centrali-Americana -- The end of Maudslay, Sons and Field -- Bernal Diaz and other works -- Last years -- Tributes -- A backward glance -- Maudslay's donations and bequests -- Alfred Maudslay's Family Tree -- Annie Maudslay's Family Tree.".
- catalog title "Alfred Maudslay and the Maya : a biography / Ian Graham.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".