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The Artifacts of Tikal—Ornamental and Ceremonial Artifacts and Unworked Material Tikal, Report 27A
  • Color Plate 1 (2008)
    IMAGE University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

    Class 2 and 3 eccentrics of medium-quality, light-colored local chert and fine, brown imported chert.

  • Color Plate 10 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Jade encrusted jars and lids from Burial 116, left, and Burial 196, right.

  • Color Plate 11 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Inscription on the lid of the jar from Burial 116.

  • Color Plate 12 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Minor sculpture in jade of a jaguar from Burial 196.

  • Color Plate 13 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Jaguar minor sculpture in situ in Burial 196. The worked Spondylus valve and jade beads are ones of several distributed along the body.

  • Color Plate 14 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Jade minor sculpture of a seated man from Burial 116.

  • Color Plate 15 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    View of some of the contents of Burial 10.

  • Color Plate 16 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Large jade earflares and beads from chamber burials.

  • Color Plate 17 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Jade pendants from chamber burials and a temple cache. From left, Burial 10, Cache 140A, Burial 23, Burial 10. Burial 10, and at lower right, Burial 24.

  • Color Plate 18 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    The backs of the jade pendants shown in 17.

  • Color Plate 19 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Jade pendants from burials and a temple cache. Upper row, Burial 10, Cache 140A, lower row, Burial 24.

  • Color Plate 2 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Class 1E eccentrics of obsidian.

  • Color Plate 20 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Jade pendant and carved beads from Burial 10.

  • Color Plate 21 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Ear ornaments. Small flare from a burial or a cache. Right, large jade earflare shown without its throat disk, and left, large earflare of marbled dark green stone, probably unfinished, both from Burial 10.

  • Color Plate 22 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Head of Burial 196 at excavation with an in situ diadem of jade disks, composite ear ornaments, necklace of long, carved beads, and scattered jade pebble beads. The reddish tinge is from cinnabar pigment.

  • Color Plate 23 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Long, four-sided bead of jade carved with a diving figure on each face, traces of cinnabar pigment, Burial 196.

  • Color Plate 24 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Carved jade pendant from Burial 77.

  • Color Plate 25 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Celt-shaped pendant from Cache 209.

  • Color Plate 26 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Serpentine mask with Spondylus shell inlays from Burial 85.

  • Color Plate 27 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Carved bowl of calcite (tecalli) from Burial 196.

  • Color Plate 28 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Minor sculpture of crouching figure of soft, dark green stone from Burial 167.

  • Color Plate 29 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Above, perforated peccary tusk and two bone tubes. Below, eight pendants cut from white marine shell, part of a necklace found with Burial 121.

  • Color Plate 3 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Incised obsidians.

  • Color Plate 30 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Carved pendant of Spondylus shell, one of a pair, and one of a pair of Spondylus shell bead bracelets with polished bone clasps, from Burial 167.

  • Color Plate 31 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Large unworked stingray spine with traces of red pigment. Two parts of a composite pendant of cut nacreous shell with a large, round pearl bead-pendant between them, from Burial 116.

  • Color Plate 32 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    A display of ornaments from Burial 196, Tikal Museum, 1968. From the top, jade diadem, pair of smaller composite jade ear ornaments, carved jade bead with diving figures, multi-strand necklace of pearl bead-pendants, pair of larger jade and shell composite ear ornaments, pair of bracelets of collared cylindrical jade beads.

  • Color Plate 33 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    Shell trumpet from Problematical Deposit 7, scallop shell perforated for suspension from Burial 10, and an unworked Spondylus shell from Burial 116.

  • Color Plate 34 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    A display of jade ornaments and Spondylus shells found with Burial 116, Tikal Museum, 1964. Note the large shell set over the top of the skull, the worked valves arranged over and along the body, and the unworked shell near the right ankle. Jade ornaments shown are a diadem, composite ear ornaments, a necklace of long beads with square sections, a necklace of graduated large pebble beads, bracelets and anklets of long cylinder beads, and scattered pebble beads.

  • Color Plate 35 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    The upper portion of a long, carved bone object from the set of inscribed and plain bones from Burial 116. It is heavily coated with red cinnabar pigment.

  • Color Plate 36 (2008)
    IMAGE Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

    A battered minor sculpture of the head of a deity carved of dolomite, from Group 5D-11, the Central Acropolis.

  • Color Plate 4 (2008)
    IMAGE University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

    A set of Class 8 incised obsidians.

  • Color Plate 5 (2008)
    IMAGE William R. Coe.

    Head of a mosaic statuette from Cache 43.

  • Color Plate 6 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    Head of a mosaic statuette from Cache 140A.

  • Color Plate 7 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Reconstructed mosaic statuette from Cache 197.

  • Color Plate 8 (2008)
    IMAGE Hans-Ruedi Hug.

    One of a pair of mosaic earflares from Burial 10.

  • Color Plate 9 (2008)
    IMAGE Elizabeth K. Easby.

    Stone and Spondylus shell mosaic mask from Burial 160.

Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics from Turkey
  • Gordion Ceramics: Photographs (2011)
    IMAGE Matthew Boulanger. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

    These images show the individual sherds from Gordion analyzed by neutron activation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Photographs were taken at LBNL and scanned by the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR. Individual files were named according to the official catalog numbers of each image assigned by the Graphic Arts Department at LBNL.

Tikal Report 37: Historical Archaeology at Tikal, Guatemala