My book will come out in 2017 with Cambridge University Press. Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics ISBN: 9781107145375 From the Press: Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassic period (c.2000Continue reading “BOOK: Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics – May 2017”
Category Archives: Maya
Chamá Style at The Met
New blog, Creativity on the Maya Periphery: A Chamá-Style Vase at The Met, now up at Now at the Met.
#MetTimeline: Ancient Maya Sculpture
Now live on the Timeline of Art History!
Do Gods Sleep? Maya Deity Houses at Copán
New Design for Eternity blog, up at Now at the Met.
Decoding a Maya Rain God Sculpture from Chichen Itza
New blog up! Now at the Met.
Design for Eternity in WSJ
Check out the review of the Metropolitan Museum exhibition “Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas” in the Wall Street Journal.
The Search for Kings and Queens in Ancient Panama
I’ve got Panama on the brain for the opening of the Gardiner Museum iteration of “Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, Gold, and Ceramics in Ancient Panama.” My talk here. The exhibition here.
The Woman in Wood
Steve Houston and I published a new commentary on the American Museum of Natural History’s beam from Tikal Temple II Lintel 2, on Maya Decipherment.
Thanksgiving, Precolumbian style
My latest for Now at the Met.
Design For Eternity – Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas
Now open!
James A. Doyle, Ph.D. 