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All-Maya, all the time
Sep. 29th, 2012 03:18 pmI felt the need to do something other than the usual stuff today, so I've reached back into time to edit my photos from the Maya 2012: Lords of Time exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. They're from mid-August and I'm just now up to them in my backlog. I've finished the exhibit, but still have a ton more photos from that day to edit.
Hard to believe, but if I had stuck with my archaeology and my focus on the Maya in the late 60s instead of dropping out and getting married, I might have been one of the young hotshot epigraphers in the golden age of the Maya Decipherment, instead of an armchair enthusiast. Oh, the life-changing decisions we make at a tender age.
[Note: if you click through the slideshow to Flickr itself, you'll find that all exhibition labels are legible in the larger sizes of the photos -- just in case you want to become an expert on these Time Lords.]
While I was at the museum in August, I did buy the current Standard Reference on the Maya (Robert A. Sharer with Loa P. Traxler, The Ancient Maya, Sixth Edition), which weighs in at an impressive 931 pages and 3 lb 12 oz. I've just signed up for a lecture this coming Wednesday evening on the epic and game-changing battle between the city-states of Copan and Quirigua in the early 700s. I'll need to do a little reading between now and then.
And also, there's the little matter of getting some exercise today. Would the sky fall, I wonder, if I were to skip two days in a row? Yes, I think it might.
Hard to believe, but if I had stuck with my archaeology and my focus on the Maya in the late 60s instead of dropping out and getting married, I might have been one of the young hotshot epigraphers in the golden age of the Maya Decipherment, instead of an armchair enthusiast. Oh, the life-changing decisions we make at a tender age.
[Note: if you click through the slideshow to Flickr itself, you'll find that all exhibition labels are legible in the larger sizes of the photos -- just in case you want to become an expert on these Time Lords.]
While I was at the museum in August, I did buy the current Standard Reference on the Maya (Robert A. Sharer with Loa P. Traxler, The Ancient Maya, Sixth Edition), which weighs in at an impressive 931 pages and 3 lb 12 oz. I've just signed up for a lecture this coming Wednesday evening on the epic and game-changing battle between the city-states of Copan and Quirigua in the early 700s. I'll need to do a little reading between now and then.
And also, there's the little matter of getting some exercise today. Would the sky fall, I wonder, if I were to skip two days in a row? Yes, I think it might.
