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.

Classic Maya Seaports: Uaymil, North Campeche Coast
Rafael Cobos
2001
How Our Mother Beloved Maiden was Saved from an Untimely Death: A christianized version of the Xkik’ tale of the Popol Wuj
Ruud van Akkeren
2001
El Gigante Rock Shelter: Archaic Mesoamerica and Transitions to Settled Life
Timothy E. Scheffler
2001
Proyecto Santa Bárbara, Yucatán, México
Travis W. Stanton
2001
Icons of Empire: Royal Presentation and the Conception of Rule in Aztec México
William Barnes
2001
The 2001 Field Season of the Labná-Kiuic Archaeological Project
William M. Ringle
2001
Vocational Directives among Maya Bonesetters in Two Guatemalan Communities
Servando Z. Hinojosa
2000
Foothill Settlement and Urban Planning at Late Classic Copán, Honduras
Allan L. Maca
2000
Northeastern Yucatán Project: Archaeological Survey in the Northeastern Corner of Yucatán, México
Angel Góngora Salas
2000
Reconstructing Teotihuacán’s Political Structure
Annabeth Headrick
2000
Household Archaeology in Coastal Oaxaca, México
Arthur A. Joyce
2000
The Origins of Mesoamerican Agriculture: Reconnaissance and Testing in the Sayula-Zacoalco Lake Basin
Bruce F. Benz
2000
Investigations at an Olmec Community
Carl J. Wendt
2000
Architectural Restoration Criteria in the Maya Area
Carlos R. Larios Villalta
2000
Excavations at Los Mogotes, San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca: A Terminal Formative Subregional Center in the Valley of Oaxaca
Christina M. Elson
2000
The Chacalapan Geophysical Survey, Veracruz, México
Daniel Welch
2000
Late Preclassic Inscription Documentation Project
David F. Mora-Marín
2000
The Palenque Mapping Project, 1998 - 2000 Final Report
Edwin L. Barnhart
2000
Quetzalcóatl. Metaphors and Images
Enrique Florescano
2000
Multi-spectral Imaging of La Casa de las Golondrinas Rock Paintings
Eugenia Robinson
2000
Preparation of a K’ichee’ Choltziij Dictionary
Florentino Pedro Ajpacajá Tum
2000
Xinka Lexicography and Morphology
Frauke Sachse
2000
Four Creations of True People: Tzotzil Maya Account of the Human Experience
Gary H. Gossen
2000
Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the La Montaña of Guerrero: Patterns in the Political and Territorial Expansion of a Tlapaneco-Mixteco Polity in Post-Classic Mesoamerica
Gerardo Gutiérrez
2000