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.

The Expanding Southwestern Frontier of Mesoamerica: Research on Previously Excavated Pacific Coastal Nicaraguan Collection: Peabody Museum
Silvia Salgado González
1996
Surviving in the Rainforest: The Realities of Looting in the Rural Villages of El Petén, Guatemala
Sofia Paredes Maury
1996
Huichol Woven Designs: Documenting the Encoded Language of an Ancient Mesoamerican Artform
Stacy B. Schaefer
1996
An Archaeological Investigation of Mayapán-Style Ceremonial Groups in the Central Petén
Timothy Pugh
1996
Diccionario de la Lengua Maya Popb'al Ti'
Victor D. Montejo
1996
Tepetlaoztoc Project: Archaeological Investigations
William T. Sanders
1996
A Facsimile Edition of Mapa de Oztoticpac
Xavier Noguez
1996
Systematic Settlement Survey Surrounding Guirún, Oaxaca, México
Gary M. Feinman
1995
Recording New Inscriptions of Palenque
Alfonso Morales
1995
Archaeological Reconnaissance at Chau Hiix
Anne K. Pyburn
1995
Masonry Construction Systems at the Acrópolis, Copán, Honduras
Christine W. Carrelli
1995
Olmec-style Iconography
Frank Kent III Reilly
1995
Chol Ritual Language
J. Kathryn Josserand & Nicholas A. Hopkins
1995
The Kaminaljuyú Miraflores II Ground-Penetrating Radar Subproject
Jonathan Kaplan
1995
The Ñuiñe System of Writing in the Lower Mixteca, México
Laura Rodríguez Cano
1995
A Tzeltal Maya Dictionary
Luisa Maffi
1995
The Archaeology of Early Formative Chalcatzingo, Morelos, México, 1995
Maria Aviles
1995
Abstract of the Dissertation: The Body in the Mixtec Codices: Birth, Purification, Transformation and Death
Monica L. Bellas
1995
Ancient Maya Environmental Adaptations and Impacts: The Paleoecology of Laguna Tamarindito, Petén, Guatemala
Nicholas Dunning
1995
Film: The Five Suns: A Sacred History of México
Patricia Amlin
1995
Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture
Patrick T. Culbert
1995
Among the River Kings: Archaeological Research at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Stephen Houston
1995
Determination of Late Postclassic Kaqchikel Maya Diet, Disease, and Cause of Death through Analysis of Skeletons from Iximché, Guatemala
Stephen L. Whittington
1995
Documentation of the Blue Creek Jade Shaft
Thomas Guderjan
1995