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.

In the Shadow of Popocatepetl: Archaeological Survey and Mapping at Tlaxcala, México
Lane F. Fargher
2006
The Sociopolitical Configuration in the City of Q’um’arkaj: The Palaces andNimja or Long Houses of the Chinamit Nija’ib’
Micaela Raquel Macario Cálgua
2006
Production, exchange and consumption of glazed wares in New Spain: formation of a database of elemental composition through INAA
Patricia Fournier & James M. Blackman
2006
Radiocarbon Dating of Teotihuacán Mapping Project TE28 Material from Cave under Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán, México
Rebecca Sload
2006
Proyecto Arqueológico Chinikihá, Temporada 2006, Informe de Actividades
Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo
2006
Ritual Diversity and Social Identities: A Study of Mortuary Behaviors at Teotihuacán, México
Sarah C. Clayton
2006
An Archaeological Investigation of the Origins of Cacao Drinking: The Ceramic Evidence from the Gulf Coast and Pacific Coast of México
Terry G. Powis
2006
Kinship relations between the elite of Calakmul, México
Vera Tiesler
2006
The Map of the Southwest Periphery of Naranjo, Petén, Guatemala
Vilma Fialko
2006
Re-evaluation of the Early Archaeological Collections from Oaxaca: A Trip to the Seler Archives in Berlin
Adam T. Sellen
2005
Olmec Culture: Textbook for Russian Universities
Andrei V. Tabarev
2005
Archaeological Reconnaissance at Tixan: Explorations in the Southern Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Petén, Guatemala
Andrew K. Scherer
2005
Late Classic–Epi-Classic Ceramic Chronology at Islas de Los Cerros, Tabasco, México
Bradley E. Ensor
2005
Palo Errado Patterned Wetland Mapping Project, Veracruz, México
Charles Leonard Frederick Knight
2005
Investigating Classic Maya Ritual Economies: Figurines from Motul de San José, Guatemala
Christina T. Halperin
2005
The Chontalpa Historical Archaeology Project, Oaxaca
Danny Zborover
2005
Cantón Corralito, Objects from a Possible Gulf Olmec Colony
David Cheetham
2005
Investigating the Expansion and Consolidation of the Tarascan State: Fieldwork at Erongarícuaro, Michoacán, México
David Haskell
2005
Proto-Urban Social Transformations and Community Organization at La Laguna, Tlaxcala, During the Late Pre-Classic
David M. Carballo
2005
Investigating Jade Prestige Goods Production, Middle Motagua Valley, Guatemala
Erick T. Rochette
2005
The Foundation, Settlement, and Political Dynamics in La Montaña de Guerrero, Mexico (14th-16th Century)
Flor Yenin Cerón Rojas
2005
Suchil River Valley Archaeological Project, Zacatecas and Durango, 2005 Season
Guillermo Córdova Tello
2005
GIS of the Maya Canoe Paddle Site, K'ak' Naab'
Heather McKillop
2005
Buenavista-Nuevo San José, Petén, Guatemala: Another village from the Middle Preclassic (800-400 B.C.)
Jeanette Castellanos Cabrera
2005