The development of Belizean archaeology

The history of Maya archaeology generally can be divided into five successive periods (Hammond, 1982, 33-66): during the first two of these, the periods of theSpanish travellers(1524-1759) and theSpanish explorers(1759-1840), Belize remained unnoted, even during the visit of Stephens and Catherwood in October 1839 on their first expedition to Central America, and even though that visit stimulated an expedition from Belize City, led by Patrick Walker, 'secretary of the government and holding besides such a list of offices as would make the greatest pluralist among us feel insignificant' (Stephens, 1841, I, 14), in an attempt to beat Stephens to the ruins of Palenque on the far side of the Yucatan Peninsula (Pendergast, 1967

Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Maya · Peninsula · Yucatan peninsula · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History

• Reconnecting Thomas Gann with British Interest in the Archaeology of Mesoamerica

  Open Access•Colin Wallace•Bulletin of the History of…•2011

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• The Archaeology of Belize in the Twenty-First Century

  Jaime J Awe•The Oxford Handbook of…•2012

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• Late Postclassic lowland Maya archaeology

  Open Access•Anthony P Andrews, Anthony Andrews•Journal of World Prehistory•1993

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• The center and the edge

  Open Access•David M Pendergast•Journal of World Prehistory•1993

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• Exploitation of chert resources by the ancient Maya of northern Belize, Central America

  Thomas R Hester, Harry J Shafer•World Archaeology•1984

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• Antiquity and the New World

  Open Access•Elizabeth Demarrais•Antiquity•2002

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• Maritime Adaptation and the Rise of Maya Civilization

  David A Freidel•Prehistoric coastal adaptations•1978

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• Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan /

  John Lloyd Stephens, Frederick Catherwood•1841

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• Analytical Archaeology

  David L Clarke•Analytical Archaeology•2014

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• Maya Archaeology 1958-1968, A Review

  Open Access•Richard E W Adams•Latin American Research Review•1969

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• Lamanai, Belize

  David M Pendergast•Journal of Field Archaeology•1981

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• Excavations in Footprint Cave, Caves Branch, Belize

  Elizabeth Graham, Logan MeNatt et al.•Journal of Field Archaeology•1980

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• Ethnology of the Mayas of southern and central British Honduras

  Open Access•John Eric Sidney Thompson, Berthold Laufer•Publication - Field Museum of…•1930

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• Report on the British Museum Expedition to British Honduras, 1928

  T A Joyce, Thomas Gann et al.•The Journal of the Royal…•1928

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• Report on the British Museum Expedition to British Honduras, 1930

  E L Gruning•The Journal of the Royal…•1930

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• Early Maya ceremonial at Cuello, Belize

  Open Access•Norman Hammond•Antiquity•1980

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• Report on the British Museum Expedition to British Honduras, 1927

  T A Joyce, J Cooper Clark et al.•The Journal of the Royal…•1927

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• Report on the British Museum Expedition to British Honduras, 1929

  T A Joyce•The Journal of the Royal…•1929

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• Report on the Investigations at Lubaantun, British Honduras, in 1926

  T A Joyce•The Journal of the Royal…•1926

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• Swamps, canals, and the locations of ancient Maya cities

  Open Access•Richard E Adams, R E W Adams•Antiquity•1980

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• Preclassic to Postclassic in northern Belize

  Open Access•Norman Hammond•Antiquity•1974

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• Palenque

  Benson Saler, David M Pendergast•Hispanic American Historical Review•1968

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• The Earliest Lowland Maya? Definition of the Swasey Phase

  Open Access•Norman Hammond, Duncan Pring et al.•American Antiquity•1979

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• Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres

  Open Access•David A Freidel•American Antiquity•1979

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