Reading Room

One of FAMSI’s primary missions was to fund research projects for students and scholars working in a variety of fields related to Mesoamerica. From 1994 until 2007, FAMSI funded 445 research projects, distributing over 3.2 million dollars. Reports submitted by these grantees were digitized, translated and posted to the original website, and some of these reports remain the only published account of a site or project. LACMA is pleased to host these grantee reports here on AncientAmericas.org so that students and scholars may continue to benefit from their findings.

In the future the reading room will expand to include publications produced by scholars in collaboration with LACMA’s Program for the Art of the Ancient Americas.

Archaeological Investigations of San Lorenzo’s Northern Alluvial Floodplain
Anthony A. Vega
1998
Chan Chich ProtoClassic Tomb Project
Brett A. Houk
1998
Itzaj Maya Documentation
Charles Andrew Hofling
1998
La Pasadita Archaeological Project
Charles Golden
1998
Plants of the Underworld: Ritual Plant Use in Ancient Maya Cave Ceremonies
Christopher Morehart
1998
Regional Survey in the Central Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, México
Dmitri Beliaev
1998
Chen K’u: The Ceramic of the Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá Study of the Ceramic Fragments of the Explorations Conducted in the 60’s
Eduardo J. Pérez de Heredia Puente
1998
Oral History of Concepción Chiquirichapa and San Martín Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
Eduardo Pérez Vaíl
1998
Kaminaljuyú Archaeological Project: A Study of the Ancient City of the Southern Guatemalan Highlands: New Perspectives
Erick Ponciano
1998
Publication: Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing
George E. Stuart
1998
A Study of the Late Postclassic Aztec-Tarascan Frontier in Northern Guerrero, México: The Oztuma-Cutzamala Project, 1998
Jay E. Silverstein
1998
Linguistic Study: Chichén Itzá Inscriptions
José Miguel García-Campillo
1998
The Eastern Riverine Corridor During the Late Classic Period
Kathryn Reese-Taylor
1998
Craft Specialization and Elite Domestic Activities: Microwear Analysis of Lithic Artifacts from Aguateca, Guatemala
Kazuo Aoyama
1998
Forgotten Images: A Study of the Ceramic Figurines from Teotihuacán, México
Kim C. Goldsmith
1998
Making and Manipulating Ritual in the City of the Gods: Figurine Production and Use at Teotihuacán, México
Kristin Sullivan
1998
Pokom Maya and Their Colonial Dictionaries
Lawrence H.Feldman
1998
Archaeological Rescue in Dzibilchaltún, Yucatán, México
Lilia Lucía Lizama-Aranda
1998
Ancient Maya Political Centers: Rural Copán Survey and Excavation at El Raizal, Honduras
Marcello A. Canuto
1998
The Cotaxtla Archaeological Survey: Results of the 1998 Field Season
Michael A. Ohnersorgen
1998
A New Study of the Gruta de Chac, Yucatán, México
Michael P. Smyth
1998
Pilot Study of the Maudslay Casts in the British Museum, 1998
Peter Mathews
1998
La Yerbabuena, Veracruz: A Salvage Investigation of an Olmec Regional Center near Pico de Orizaba Volcano
Robert H. Cobean
1998
Early Copán Acropolis Program 1998 Field Season
Robert J. Sharer
1998