The most recent Corpus presents Bruce Love’s 2025 photographs of three circular ballcourt markers, a panel, and a panel fragment from the Mundo Maya Regional Museum in Tayasal, Guatemala. We hope you enjoy these beautiful works from Cancuén and Dos Pilas.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Research Contribution 18 presents Bruce Love’s 2025 photograph and drawing of Monument 1 from Takalik Abaj, Guatemala. Christa Schieber de Lavarreda, Director of Parque Arqueológico Nacional Tak’alik Ab’aj, provides the background for this Late Middle Preclassic petroglyph.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Corpus Volume 20 presents twenty stelae, three altars, and a Temple IV wooden lintel, all currently housed in the Lithics Museum. The building is adjacent to the Tikal visitor center and contains some of Tikal’s most important monuments, removed from the site to be preserved and protected inside the building.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Corpus Volume 19 is a departure from previous corpora, highlighting glyphs on ceramics rather than on stone. We hope you will enjoy seeing some familiar, or not so familiar, objects in a new way. The pieces in this set were photographed in their display cases at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and shared with permission from LACMA.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Corpus Volume 19: Classic Maya Ceramics with Glyphs at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Research Contribution 17 presents five “contortionists” from Tabasco, Mexico: one in the Pellicer museum in Villahermosa, one in a small municipal museum in Tenosique, and three in the Pomoná site museum. This contribution was produced in collaboration with Miguel García Mollinedo, who helped throughout the process and wrote the introduction to the monuments published here.
-Bruce Love
Research Contribution 17: Five Contortionists from Tabasco, Mexico
The Hombre de Tikal is a masterpiece first published by Federico Fahsen in 1988. In Corpus Volume 18, we share photographs taken in 2025 of this seated stone figure that document the intricate glyphs carved into the surface of this sculpture.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Our most recent addition to Contributions to Mesoamerican Studies is the English translation of El Verdadero Significado de Oxchuc en Glifos de la Cultural Maya by Martín Gómez Ramírez (Maya Tseltal). We hope you enjoy this valuable Research Contribution.
-Bruce Love
Research Contribution 16: The True Meaning of Oxchuc in Mayan Cultural Glyphs, Martín Gómez Ramírez
Research Contribution 15, The Paris Codex Index, is a nearly 300-page document that organizes the 203 unique glyphs from the Paris Codex into an easy-to-reference format. This resource, assembled by Clio Reichart and Bruce Love, should prove useful to Maya epigraphers for years to come.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Research Contribution 15: The Paris Codex Index, Clio Reichart, Uguku Usdi, and Bruce Love
Corpus Volume 17 includes photographs and drawings of 27 monuments from Dzibanché, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The introductions, written by Bruce Love and Dzibanché Project Director Sandra Balanzario, summarize their documentation process and place the site of Dzibanché in its historical context.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Corpus Volume 17: Monuments of Dzibanché, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Corpus Volume 16 presents a single monument in two parts. The lower half of Stela 1 from Cancuen is in a school room in Cobán, Alta Verapaz, and the upper half is in a school courtyard in Santa Elena, Petén. This publication photographically reunites them. The photos, by Bruce Love, were taken in March and April of this year.
-Bruce Love and Meghan Rubenstein
Corpus Volume 16: Cancuen Stela 1: Cobán, Alta Verapaz, and Santa Elena, Peten, Guatemala
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