This year’s symposium offers a glimpse of Maya life through images and hieroglyphic texts painted by Maya scribes called ah tz’ibob. Murals from the northern Maya area will be the focus of discussions by archaeologists, epigraphers, and art historians, with additional examples from elsewhere in the Maya world. We will explore the earliest murals, recently discovered at Late Preclassic San Bartolo, to the latest pre-Columbian examples from the Late Postclassic sites of Mayapán and Tulum.
Speakers
"Windows to Another World: Murals of Ancient Mesoamerica" -- Karl Taube
"Iconography and Hieroglyphic Texts by Maya Ah Tz’ibob" -- Bryan Just
"Maya Calendars and Astronomy" -- Anthony Aveni
"Prehispanic Maya Paintings from the Architecture of the Yucatán Peninsula: A Survey" -- Merideth Paxton
"Mural Painting at Chichén Itzá" -- Virginia Miller
"Postclassic Murals at Mayapán: A Window into the Mesoamerican World View" -- Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope
"Acts of Creation and Kingship: The Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala" -- William A. Saturno
"Early Classic Maya Paintings from the Holmul Region and the Maya-Teotihuacan Affair" -- Francisco Estrada-Belli
"Conserving the Painted History of Chamá: Image, Text, and Politics in Maya Polychrome Pottery" -- Elin Danien, Lynn Grant, and Gene Ware