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.

Publication: La Imagen de América Los Dibujos de Arqueología Americana de Francisco Mújica Diez de Bonilla
Daniel Schávelzon
2004
Ancient Maya Plant Use Activities and Agroforestry at Tikal, Guatemala
David L. Lentz
2004
Sampling Cerros' Demise: A Radiometric Check on the Elusive Protoclassic
Debra S. Walker
2004
La Costa Escondida: An Archaeological Investigation of the Ancient Maya Port of Vista Alegre, Quintana Roo, México
Dominique Rissolo
2004
Records of Ancient Human-Environmental Interaction from Mayan Southern Petén, Guatemala
Duncan E. Cook
2004
Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Región de Holmul, Peten: Holmul, Cival, La Sufricaya y K’o
Francisco Estrada-Belli
2004
Archaeological Research in the Holmul Region, Petén, Guatemala
Francisco Estrada-Belli
2004
Sacred Landscapes and Social Memory: The Ñuiñe Inscriptions in the Ndaxagua Natural Tunnel, Tepelmeme, Oaxaca
Javier Urcid
2004
A Codex Imaging Project at the Bodleian Library: The Recovery of Lost Mixtec Writing
John Monaghan
2004
Nahuatl Cultural Encyclopedia: Botany and Zoology, Balsas River, Guerrero
Jonathan D. Amith
2004
Excavation of two Middle Formative Cemeteries in the Mascota Valley of Jalisco, México
Joseph B. Mountjoy
2004
The Radiocarbon Dating of Public Buildings and Ritual Features in the Ancient Valley of Oaxaca
Joyce Marcus
2004
Jadeite Sources and Ancient Workshops: Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Upper Río El Tambor, Guatemala
Karl Taube
2004
Obsidian Craft Production at Cacaxtla-Xochitécatl, Tlaxcala
Kenneth G. Hirth
2004
A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya, Guatemala
Kerry Hull
2004
Animals and Ritual in the Copán Acropolis: Zooarchaeology of Special Deposits
Kitty F. Emery
2004
Green Stones in Central Jalisco
Lorenza López Mestas Camberos
2004
Totógal: Investigations of Postclassic Occupation and the Aztec Frontier in the Tuxtla Mountains, Veracruz, México
Marcie L. Venter
2004
Palenque's ceramics: searching for a methodology for their study and classification
Maria Elena San Román Martín
2004
The Effects of Urbanism on the Health and Demography of the Postclassic Population of Cholula, Puebla
Meggan M. Bullock
2004
The Inhabitants of Q'umarkaaj, Late Postclassic K'iche'-Mayan Capital: Guatemalan Highlands
Micaela Raquel Macario Cálgua
2004
Rural Production in Northwest Honduras: The 2004 Season of the Lower Cacaulapa Valley Archaeological Project
Patricia A. Urban
2004
Surface Archaeology in the Chilapa-Zitlala Area of Guerrero, México
Paul Schmidt
2004
Archaeological Investigations at Medias Aguas, Veracruz, México
Roberto Lunagómez Reyes
2004