Maya Archaeologist

by J. Eric S. Thompson, illustrated (illustrator)

Maya Archaeologist is an autobiographical account of explorations in Mayan ruins by J. Eric S. Thompson, one of the world's foremost authorities on the Maya Indians of Mexico and Central America. Based on his expeditions from 1926 to 1936 - when conditions in the Maya area were very close to those in the years of the Conquest - this book is an intensely personal account of the investigation of the "stone cities," such as Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Copan, Tikal, and Quirigua, as well as lively portraits of the archaeologists who probed this civilization - Morley, Gann, Ruppert, Vaillant, Roys, and many others.

Genres: Archaeology

Hardcover

First published December 30, 1974

About the author

Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was an archaeologist specializing in the Mayan areas of Mexico and Central America, who was long associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Sir Thompson also was awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, commander of the Spanish Order of Isabel la Católica, and Fellow of the British Academy.