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Calakmul and La Corona References, Books and Electronic Links
Thanks especially to Randa Marhenke for many of the items here, and to John Harris for some on SE Campeche. The grouping at this point is in this order:
Calakmul references
Calakmul pictures
SE Campeche
La Corona = Site Q
Summary introduction to Calakmul by David Hixson:
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~dhixson/calakmul/summary.html
Overviews of history of Calakmul, see the chart here (sites mentioning Calakmul vs. time), the compilation of dates, and the three items here following:
Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube 2000, second edition 2008
"Calakmul" pp.100-115 in Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens. Thames & Hudson
Arqueología Mexicana Núm. 42, April 2000, entire issue focused on Calakmul
Calakmul in Sight. History and Archaeology of an Ancient Maya City. 2008 by Kai Delvendahl.
Published by unas letras industria editorial, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico. 197pp.
Very up to date, Mayan history of the site; history of discovery; overview of site layout; details of visit;
Extensive bibliography
More specialized studies of Calakmul:
Simon Martin 2005 Of Snakes and Bats: Shifting Identities at Calakmul. Pari Journal vol.6 no.2 pp.5-13
www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/journal/602/SnakesBats_e.pdf
Simon Martin 2008 "Wives and Daughters on the Dallas Altar" (on Calakmul women becoming wives of La Corona rulers)
www.mesoweb.com/articles/martin/Wives&Daughters.html
The Inscriptions of Calakmul: Royal Marriage at a Maya City in Campeche,
Mexico by Joyce Marcus 1987, 226 pages, ISBN:0608056804
List of 61 long count dates from Calakmul (six of which are estimated stylistically);
Drawings of only a few stelas: 8; 9 back; 43 names and titles; 89 fragment; name phrase from 51,
A separate chapter on paired stelas for royal couples:
AD 623 stelas 28, 29 (9.9.10);
AD 642-652 stela 88 back and front (9.11.0 ?); AD 662 stela 9 back and front (9.11.10, 9.12.0);
AD 693 stelas I and II (if from Calakmul; now in Cleveland Museum of Art and in Kimbell, Fort Worth, 9.12.13.13.5)
AD 702 stelas 23, 24 (9.13.10?); AD 731 stelas 54, 52 (9.15.0).
Pincemin, Marcus, Folan, Folan, Et al: Extending the Calakmul Dynasty Back in
Time: A New Stela from a Maya Captial in Campeche, Mexico
Latin American Antiquity, Vol 9, No 4 (Dec., 1998), pp 310-327
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3537030
Carrasco Vargas, Ramón, and Sylviane Boucher
"Las Escaleras Jeroglíficas del Resbalon, Quintana Roo"
In Primer Simposio Mundial sobre Epigrafía Maya, 1986, pp.1-21
Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes: Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala
Latin American Antiquity 06-4 (1995) for Folan, Marcus Et al
Calakmul: New Data from an Ancient Maya Capital in Campeche, Mexico
http://www.jstor.org/pss/971834
Jeffrey H. Miller: Notes on a Stelae Pair Probably from Calakmul, Campeche,
Mexico (1973)
Published in 1974 as Primera Mesa Redonda de Palenque, Part I, edited by Merle
Greene Robertson.
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/RT01/Calakmul.pdf
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/RT01/Calakmul.html
La Pintura Mural, boletin 23:
www.pinturamural.esteticas.unam.mx/Pdf/boletin23.pdf
Folan + Morales Lopez 1996: Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico: La Estructura II-H...
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/citart?info=link&codigo=143057&orden=1
for REAA9696110009A.PDF
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/stable/pdfplus/15555.pdf
Morley: The Scientific Monthly, vol. 37, no. 3 (Sep. 1933), pp. 193-206
http://www.jstor.org/pss/15555
Lundell: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 72, No. 3
(1933): Archeological Discoveries in the Maya Area
http://www.jstor.org/pss/984641
For Ruppert Calakmul etc (in Carnegie Insitute of Washington Publication 543 of 1943): http://geomaps.aum.edu/
After you reach that page, use various links, such as:
<28 ancient Maya sites> ------------> Table of Contents of Pub 543
Then click on all the site names from the Table of Contents to get all the parts of the text of the written report. You can only get access to Ruppert's report this way--not Denison's, nor the references.
<Publication 543 Interactive Map>
Then click on site names from the map to get the particular site maps.
Parts of Publication 543 (included above), and other parts of other reports, are listed nearer the bottom of this <http://geomaps.aum.edu/> page.
<Calakmul> ---> Calakmul site map
<pp 13-23> ---> Calakmul report (pdf file)
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Calakmul photos:
For a google search of pictures of Calakmul on the web, http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=calakmul&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
For David and Linda Schele's 125 photos of Calakmul on Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/elaineschele/sets/72157612863581402/show/
Uploaded by Elaine Schele.
For Carnegie Institute of Washington photos of Calakmul, http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/col/enterterm.cfm Type in <Calakmul>.
Proskouriakoff Photos from her A Study of Classic Maya Sculpture, Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 593
http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Proskouriakoff/Proskouriakoff.html Figs 40, 42, 46, 55, 56, 79
Thanks to Randa Marhenke for the last two.
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Campeche more generally:
Antonio Benavides C: Campeche Archaeology at the Turn of the Century
www.drustvo-antropologov.si/AN/PDF/2005_1/Anthropological_Notebooks_XI-1_2.pdf
This has a pretty good bibliography.
Ivan $prajc 2008 Reconocimiento arqueológico en el surested del estado de Campeche, México, 1996-2005
Chapter 8 pp.177-232 is by Nikolai Grube: "Monumentos esculpidos: epigrafía y iconografía". It includes a list p.231 of all caleric dates in the monuments of this area. BAR International Series 1742.
For Southern and Southeastern Campeche (sites in close relationships with Calakmul),
John Harris suggests these 3 readings, which can be downloaded from the Mesoweb site
Nikolai Grube 2005 "Toponyms, Emblem Glyphs, and the Political Geography of Southern Campeche
www.drustvo-antropologov.si/AN/PDF/2005_1/Anthropological_Notebooks_XI-1_6.pdf
Eric Velásquez García "The Captives of Dzibanche"
www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/journal/602/Captives_e.pdf
And from Randa Marhenke these:
Sprajc: Photos of SE Campeche sites:
http://gis.zrc-sazu.si/campeche/CmpHome.aspx
http://gis.zrc-sazu.si/campeche/photoCmpch.aspx
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La Corona
("Site Q" was long ago thought to be El Peru. More recently it has been discovered that Site Q = La Corona.)
Sourcebook for the 2009 Maya Meetings at Texas
Final Report of the 2008 Season of the La Corona Project (on Mesoweb, in Spanish) -- this contains also extensive archaeology.
"Proyecto Arqueológico La Corona: Informe Final, Temporada 2008"
Stan Guenter 2005 "La Corona Find Sheds Light on Site Q Mystery" Pari Journal vol.6 no.2 pp.14-
Photos and some drawings of many panels from "Site Q" are in Karl Herbert Meyer's volumes Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance. Especially see the lists compiled by Peter Mathews, Simon Martin, and Niklolai Grube in vols.VII 1995 Supplement 4 p.93 and V 1989 p.53.
Photos copyrigh © Justin Kerr of Site Q Grolier Panel and one of Glyphic Panel D are here. (large files ~ 4 megabytes each)
Three panels probably from La Corona, http://www.mayavase.com/corona/La_Corona.html (12 photos in varying light of panels K9126, K9127, K9128). With analyses by Simon Martin and by David Stuart. These photos are copyright © Justin Kerr.
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Other sites:
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/journal/802/index.html
Raphael Tunesi: A New Monument Mentioning Wamaaw K'awiil of Calakmul
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/publications/journal/704/index.html
Tokovinine: Of Snake Kings and Cannibals: A Fresh Look at the Naranjo
Hieroglyphic Stairway
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