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Alta Verapaz, and Readings relative to the 2009 Maya Weekend,
University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3-5 April

A link to the Maya Weekend web site is here.
For a list of speakers, topics, and workshops, please scroll lower on this page.

Publications on the Alta Verapaz. A listing drawn from the FAMSI bibliography is here.

Karen Bassie suggests three volumes by Lawrence Feldman:
     Lost Shores, Forgotten Peoples
     A Tumpline Economy
     History of the Foundation of the Town of Chamiquin in the Province of Verapaz
She has also published a recent book relative to the landscape of this area: Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities

For Chamá and (possibly?) Nebaj ceramics, please see the lists of vases by topic here and specifically the third list here.
There are discussions in Dorie Reents-Budet Painting the Maya Universe (four new softbound copies shrinkwrapped are still available for purchase here).
     For Chamá-style pottery, her index lists these pages: 140-141, 188-197, 237-239,278-279, 330, 340, 358.
     For Nebaj, on page 344 relating to catalog no.69 (larger image on page 249 Fig.6.17) there appears this text: "Pseudohieroglyphs are painted around the collar of the jar. A tradition of painting hieroglyphic-like signs on pottery extends from the region around Nebaj through the Salamá Valley into the Upper Motagua River Area."

Speakers at the Maya Weekend include these:
Saturday AM
Robert J. Sharer Emergent Crossroads: Preclassic Maya Civilization in the Verapaz
Karen Bassie The Sacred Landscape of Alta Verapaz
Sarah Kurnick Nourishing The Dead and The Divine: The Burkitt Censers at Penn Museum
Elin Danien Eccentric Archaeologists and Painted Pots: The Circuitous Path to an Exhibition
Workshops:
Marc Zender (beginners) Words and Rules: How We Read Maya Hieroglyphs Today
Inga Calvin (Cultural Workshop) Of Glyphs and Pseudo-Glyphs: What is "Written" on Classic Maya Pottery

Saturday PM
Jeremy A. Sabloff Maya Highland-Lowland Trade: Some New Perspectives
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos The Coastal Connection: Cacao in Verapaz and the Pacific Coast
Lynn Grant Connecting the Pots
Allen J. Christenson To See With Ancient Eyes: Ancestral Vision and Highland Maya Shamanism
Workshops:
John Harris (Hieroglyph - Intermediate) Analysis of Maya Inscriptions
John Burkhalter (Cultural Workshop) Music from the Land of the Jaguar
Dori Panzer (Educators’ Workshop) Putting the Maya in the Classroom

Sunday AM
Brent Woodfill Interregional Trade and Intercultural Communication in Northern Alta Verapaz
Erin L. Sears Maya Figurines Along the Water Trails of the Chixoy and Pasión
Patricia Urban and Ellen E. Bell Faces of the Past: Making, Using, and Trading Mesoamerican Figurines, Whistles, and Ocarinas
Dorie Reents-Budet (presenter), Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman Crossroads of Tradition: Chamá-style Painted Ceramics
Workshops:
Justin Kerr (Cultural Workshop) What’s Going On Here?
Simon Martin (Hieroglyphs - Advanced) On the Snake's Tail: Tracking the Kings of Calakmul-Dzibanche