Jane Maclaren Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 330535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Maclaren Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane Maclaren |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum of Natural History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls
Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels…
Between Old World and New
The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette
The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents t…
Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls
Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels…
The stone faces of Teotihuacan
The origins of two purportedly pre-Columbian Mexican crystal skulls
The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl
The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface. Some of the earliest and most revered pre-Columbian artifacts in the world's major museum and private collections were collected prior to the advent of systematic, scientific archaeological excavation, and have little or no reliable provenience data. They have consistently posed problems for researchers due to anomalies of theme, material, size, technical virtuosity and iconography. Thi…
The Smithsonian Water Goddess
John Peabody Harrington
The origins of two purportedly pre-Columbian Mexican crystal skulls
The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl
The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface. Some of the earliest and most revered pre-Columbian artifacts in the world's major museum and private collections were collected prior to the advent of systematic, scientific archaeological excavation, and have little or no reliable provenience data. They have consistently posed problems for researchers due to anomalies of theme, material, size, technical virtuosity and iconography. Thi…
The stone faces of Teotihuacan
John Peabody Harrington
The Smithsonian Water Goddess
The origins of two purportedly pre-Columbian Mexican crystal skulls
The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl
The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface. Some of the earliest and most revered pre-Columbian artifacts in the world's major museum and private collections were collected prior to the advent of systematic, scientific archaeological excavation, and have little or no reliable provenience data. They have consistently posed problems for researchers due to anomalies of theme, material, size, technical virtuosity and iconography. Thi…
The stone faces of Teotihuacan
Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls
Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels…
The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette
The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents t…
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls
Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels…
Between Old World and New
Archaeology (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Latin American history and culture (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (2 works) · Art history (2 works)