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Shook, Edwin M., Winifred Veronda

Incidents in the Life of a Maya Archaeologist

1998

140,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1998
Lugar de impresión
Guatemala; San Marino. Southern Academy Press
Autor
Shook, Edwin M., Winifred Veronda
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Central America & West Indies Signed Archeology
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [24.5 x 17 cm]; xi, 302, [i] pp, plates and numerous illustrations from photos, bibliog, index, pictorial endpapers. original boards with title lettering on spine and cover, dj, quite fine (as new), clean and unused, signed by both the author and Veronda on the half title page. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Shook spent 25 years with the Carnegie Institution exploring Yucatan, Peten, Guatemala, spending 9 years researching Tikal, and personally naming more than 1,500 Maya sites. He received the Order of the Quetzal from Guatemala. He worked with some of the great Maya archaeologists in the area including Luis J. Halle, Eric Thompson, Sylvanus Morley, Alfred Kidder. The prologue is by Marion Popenoe de Hatch and the Introduction is by Federico Fahsoen O. The work was published in only 3,000 copies.