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.

Specialized Craft Production and Social Complexity in Formative Mixteca Alta
Verónica Pérez Rodríguez
2004
Maya Settlement Patterns and Land Use in Buena Vista, Cozumel, México
Adolfo Iván Batún-Alpuche
2003
Laguna de los Cerros: A Terminal Classic Period Capital in the Southern Mexican Gulf Coast
Ann Cyphers
2003
Politics and Economics: Motul de San José, Petén
Antonia E. Foias
2003
The Ceramic Sequence of Piedras Negras, Guatemala: Type and Varieties
Arturo René Muñoz
2003
Edwin M. Shook Archival Collection, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Barbara Arroyo & Luisa Escobar
2003
Tarascan Copper Metallurgy at the Site of Itziparátzico, Michoacán, México
Blanca E. Maldonado
2003
Archaeological Investigations in the Candelaria Caves and La Lima, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Brent Woodfill
2003
Ritual Ceramic Use in the Early and Middle Preclassic at the sites of Blackman Eddy and Cahal Pech, Belize
Brown, M. Kathryn
2003
Baking Pot Codex Restoration Project, Belize
Carolyn M. Audet
2003
Sierra del Lacandón Regional Archaeology Project First Field Season 2003
Charles Golden
2003
Ulúa-Style Marble Vase Project: Dissemination of Results
Christina Luke
2003
Public Architecture: Navajas, Jalisco, México
Christopher Beekman
2003
Nicachi Songs: Zapotec Ritual Texts and Postclassic Ritual Knowledge in Colonial Oaxaca
David Eduardo Tavárez
2003
The Primary Standard Sequence: Database Compilation, Grammatical Analysis, and Primary Documentation
David F. Mora-Marín
2003
The Ethnoarchaeology of Salt Production in the Lake Cuitzeo Basin, Michoacán, México
Eduardo Williams
2003
Archaeological Investigations in the Holmul Region, Petén, Guatemala
Francisco Estrada-Belli
2003
Archaeological Investigations at Holmul, Petén, Guatemala
Francisco Estrada-Belli
2003
Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Metallurgy in Jicalán, Michoacán, México: An Archaeological Survey
Hans Roskamp
2003
Changes and Continuities in Ritual Practice at Chechem Ha Cave, Belize: Report on Excavations Conducted in the 2003 Field Season
Holley Moyes
2003
Revisiting the Xunantunich Palace: The 2003 Excavations
Jason Yaeger
2003
Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses of Obsidian Procurement in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca
Jeffrey P. Blomster
2003
Research on Temple 16: An Ongoing Imagery Reconstruction of Temple 16, Copán, Honduras
Jorge Ramos
2003
Understanding the Classic to Postclassic Architectural Transformation of Rural Households and Communities in the Quexil-Petenxil Basins, El Petén, Guatemala
Kevin R. Schwarz
2003