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Registration is now open for The 2013 Maya Meetings

Registration is now open for the 2013 Maya Meetings.

The Art of Maya Architecture:
Cosmology and Dynasty in the Built Environment
January 15-19, 2013
The University of Texas at Austin

All of our events require registration. All workshops are being conducted concurrently. Therefore, you may only register for one workshop. Registration fees are not refundable.

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Mesoamerica Students presenting at the Simposio de InvestigacionesArqueológicas Guatemala

Brochure for the Simposio de Guatemala 2012

The Mesoamerica Center is proud to announce the following faculty and students who are presenting papers at the XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Guatemala.

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Read David Stuart's Decipherment Blog

In April and May of this year the remains of an important hieroglyphic stairway were discovered at Structure 13R-10 at La Corona, Guatemala, during excavations undertaken by the Proyecto Regional Arqueológico La Corona, directed by Marcello Canuto (Tulane University) and Tomás Barrientos Quezada (Universided del Valle de Guatemala). David Stuart is the Project Epigrapher.

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Exhibition: The Legacy of the Plumed Serpent in Ancient Mexico

The Dallas Museum of Art presents The Legacy of the Plumed Serpent in Ancient Mexico, the first large-scale exploration of the ancient kingdoms of southern Mexico and their patron deity, Quetzalcoatl, an
incarnation of the spirit force of wind and rain that combined the attributes of a serpent with those of the quetzal bird, thus the name “Plumed Serpent.”

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MSNBC features David Stuart discovery

David Stuart, a professor of art history at the University of Texas at Austin, recognized the reference to the date among 56 glyphs that were carved on the stone block. "It was a time of great political turmoil in the Maya region, and this king felt compelled to allude to a larger cycle of time that happens to end in 2012," Stuart said in a statement released by UT."

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UT Professor David Stuart interview by KUT

Archaeologists in Guatemala recently discovered a Mayan stone that makes a second reference to December 21, 2012. David Stuart, a professor of art history at the University of Texas at Austin was the one to decipher the hieroglyph. He joined KUT’s Nathan Bernier to talk about the substantial find.

Listen to the interview here

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