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.

El Mapa de Teozacoalco
David Shoemaker
1999
The Palenque Mapping Project, 1999 Field Season Report
Edwin L. Barnhart
1999
Excavations at El Palenque, San Martín Tilcajete: A Late Formative Subregional Center in the Oaxaca Valley, México
Elsa M. Redmond
1999
Prehispanic Life in a Man-made Island Habitat in Chignahuapan Marsh, Santa Cruz Atizapan, State of México, México
Emily McClung de Tapia
1999
Archaeological Investigations at Holmul, Guatemala Report of the First Field Season, May-June 2000
Francisco Estrada-Belli
1999
Archaeology of the Guatemala Pacific Coast
Frederick J. Bove
1999
Archaeological Palynology of Teuchitlán
Glenn Stuart
1999
Production and Distribution of Plumbate Pottery: Evidence from a Provenance Study of the Paste and Slip Clay Used in a Famous Mesoamerican Tradeware
Hector Neff
1999
Terracotta Figurines from the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacán, México
Janet Montoya
1999
Multispectral Imaging of the Tepantitla Murals at Teotihuacán
Jennifer Browder
1999
The Long and Winding Road: Regional Maya Sacbe, Yucatán Peninsula, México
Jennifer Mathews
1999
After the Fall: Examining the nature of the Classic Maya collapse of Copán, Honduras
Kam Manahan
1999
Late Postclassic Shrine Complexes at El Naranjal, Quintana Roo, México
Karl James Lorenzen
1999
Analysis and Conservation of a Wooden Figurine Recovered from Xmuqlebal Xheton Cave in Southern Belize, C.A.
Keith M. Prufer
1999
The Conference on Ancient Mesoamerican Obsidian Blade Production
Kenneth G. Hirth
1999
Rethinking Maya Political Geography
Lorraine A. Williams-Beck
1999
Postclassic Political and Economic Development in the Chetumal Province: Establishing a Chronological Framework
Marilyn A. Masson
1999
Macrobotanical Study: Zacatecas, México
Paula Turkon
1999
Early Copán Acropolis Program 1999 Field Season
Robert J. Sharer
1999
The Northern Belize Coastal Project, 1999
Shirley Boteler Mock
1999
Sampling Botanical Remains at Blue Creek, Belize
Thomas Guderjan
1999
Report of the 1998 and 1999 Investigations on the Archaeology and Iconography of the Polychrome Stucco Façade of Structure N10-28, Lamanai, Belize
Thomas Mark Shelby
1999
The Palenque Mapping Project, 1998 Field Season Report
Edwin L. Barnhart
1998
Porta Incensario Restoration at Palenque, Chiapas
Alfonso Morales
1998