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Copan, Palenque, and the battle over Maya origins, how two explorers dismantled a century of Old World mythology
When Stevens and Catherwood hacked through the jungles of Central America in 1839, they encountered not just the breathtaking ruins of a lost civilization, but a world of outlandish theories that ...
Contributions and controversies in the archaeology and history of Copán / William L. Fash and Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle -- Political ecology, political economy, and the culture history of resource ...
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The men who “rediscovered” the Maya, Stevens and Catherwood’s 1839 journey into Copan and Palenque
In 1839, John Lloyd Stevens and Frederick Catherwood pushed through war, bandits, and malaria to reach Copan and beyond, producing the drawings and travel accounts that revealed the sophistication of ...
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