The LFRC Field School
During May, June, and July, the Lamanai Field Research Centre
(LFRC) in Belize will be sponsoring a number of field school
sessions open to graduate, undergraduate, and avocational students.
A special session on Maya architecture will be taught by David
Pendergast, of the Royal Ontario Museum. For more information,
check the LFRC web site at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/afs/testpit.html
The Lamanai On-Site Museum
During June and July of 1998, Elizabeth Graham, Lisa Hilborn,
and Heidi Ritscher, along with Nasario Ku, will continue the
work they began in 1997 on the re-organization, cleaning, and
sorting of the Lamanai artifacts in the on-site museum on the
Lamanai Reserve. Funds are being raised to provide conservation
materials and supplies and also to help with the construction
of safe storage facilities for displayable small finds. A non-profit
organization is being set up to receive donations to help support
the Lamanai Museum. When the organization is fully established,
we will post an address and contact numbers for those who wish
to make contributions to the museum.
The Lamanai Research Team
In addition to Hilborn and Ritscher, there are students and scholars
who are turning their attention towards analyses of the excavated
Lamanai artifacts as well as towards research built on the foundations
laid by David Pendergast (see History of Excavations at Lamanai).
Norbert Stanchly is focusing on identification and analysis of
the remaining Lamanai faunal material. Faunal material from earlier
excavations at Lamanai was identified and analysed by Kitty Emery
as part of the research for her Master's thesis (Postclassic
and Colonial Period Subsistence Strategies in the Southern Maya
Lowlands: Faunal Analyses from Lamanai and Tipu, Belize,
University of Toronto, 1990). During the 1998 field season Richard
Meadows, University of Texas at Austin, will be studying the
chert eccentrics from Lamanai, and Terry Powis, University of
Texas at Austin, will be focusing on the Preclassic ceramics.
Scott Simmons, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado,
is planning residential settlement studies in order to examine
changes in production and economy through time. |
