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 Archaeology of México’s South Gulf Coast: Future Directions
Richard Diehl
1997
Early Copán Acropolis Program 1995-1997 Field Seasons Latest Findings at Copán, Honduras
Robert J. Sharer
1997
The Piedras Negras Project, 1997 Season
Stephen Houston
1997
Aguateca Archaeological Project: A Study of Classic Maya Household Organization and Domestic Activities
Takeshi Inomata
1997
Alternative Constructions of Religious Expertise in a Huichol Community, Jalisco, México
Bret Blosser
1996
Teotihuacán at Kaminaljuyú? The Evidence from Oxygen Isotopes in Human Bone
Christine D. White
1996
Historia de la arqueología de Teotihuacán
Daniel Schávelzon
1996
Conservation Training Program: Copán, Honduras
David Sedat
1996
Obsidian Hydration and 14C Dating at Copán, Honduras: Three Concordance Experiments
David Webster
1996
Northern Yucatán Obsidian Finds - Mérida and Chichén Itzá
Geoffrey E. Braswell
1996
The Pictographs of Piedra San Vicente, Coastal Oaxaca, México - September, 1996
Heather S. Orr
1996
La Nueva Conquista: Cross-cultural Interaction and Lacandón Maya Culture Change in the 19th-century Guatemalan Lowlands
Joel W. Palka
1996
The Late Classic Palace Polychromes of Cahal Pech, Belize: Documentation and Analysis
Joseph Ball & Jennifer T. Taschek
1996
Teotihuacán: Underworld Study
Linda Manzanilla
1996
The Inhabitants of Tikal: A Bioarchaeological Pilot Project
Lori E. Wright
1996
Documentation of Sculptures at Quiriguá, Guatemala
Matthew G. Looper
1996
Chichén Itzá: The Palace of the Sculptured Columns
Merle Greene Robertson
1996
The Historical Geography of Santa María Ixcatlan, Oaxaca
Michael O. Hironymous
1996
Belize Ritual Caves Project
Patricia Austin
1996
The Architectural Development of an Early Maya Structure at Nakbé, Petén, Guatemala
Richard D. Hansen
1996
Report of the 1996 Field Season of the Early Copán Acropolis Program
Robert J. Sharer
1996
San Carlos Rural Olmec Household Project
Robert P. Kruger
1996
Early Formative Occupation of the Lower Ulúa River Valley, Honduras
Rosemary A. Joyce
1996
Ancient Manipulation of Wetlands in the Northern Maya Lowlands: Report on Archaeological Investigations of 1996-97
Scott L. Fedick
1996