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.

Palenque and Selected Survey Sites in Chiapas and Tabasco: The Preclassic
Robert L. Rands
1998
Preserving the Past: Creating a Geographic Information System from the Work of Dr. Edwin Shook
Rosalinda Méndez
1998
Between Mountains and Sea: Investigations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Stephen Houston
1998
Urban Influences at Rural Sites: Teotihuacán and its near Hinterlands
Thomas H. Charlton
1998
Ancient Tollan: Tula and the Toltec Heartland
Alba Guadalupe Mastache
1997
A Study of the Carved Boulders of Lake Güija, El Salvador and A Survey of Rock Art in Highland Guatemala
Andrea Stone
1997
Southeast Sector Settlement, A Stucco Statue, and Substantial Survey: The Caracol 1997 Season
Arlen F. Chase & Diane Z. Chase
1997
Cancuén Archaeological Project
Arthur A. Demarest
1997
Burial Excavations in Plaza 1 of Los Pilarillos, Zacatecas, México
Ben A. Nelson
1997
Chan Chich Archaeological Project
Brett A. Houk
1997
Neutron Activation Analysis on Olmec Pottery: A View From La Venta
Brett Methner
1997
Social Reproduction of Late Postclassic Ritual Practices in Early Colonial Central México
David Eduardo Tavárez
1997
Ritual Sacrifice and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuacán, México
George Cowgill
1997
Rollout Photography of Polychrome Pottery from El Salvador
Inga Calvin
1997
Mayflower Archaeology Project (MAP)
Jeffrey Stomper
1997
T’Hó: The Ancestral Mérida
Joseph Ligorred Perramon
1997
1998 International Congress of Mayanists, Guatemala
Juan Antonio Valdés
1997
Caves Branch Caves: Archaeological Field Report
Juan Luis Bonor
1997
Investigations of Middle Preclassic Public Architecture at the site of Blackman Eddy, Belize
Kathryn M. Brown
1997
Surviving Postclassic Maya Collapse–Belize
Marilyn A. Masson
1997
Obsidian Mirrors and Tezcatlipoca in Conquest and Post-Conquest México
Nicholas J. Saunders
1997
"Smoke and Mirrors" Tezcatlipoca, The Nature of an Aztec Deity
Nicholas J. Saunders
1997
A Corpus of Cotzumalhuapa-Style Sculpture, Guatemala
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
1997
The Settlement Patterns of Chichén Itzá, Yucatán
Rafael Cobos
1997