Quirigua Reports, Volume II

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Edited by Edward M Schortman Edited by Patricia A Urban

Book cover: Quirigua Reports, Volume II

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum

Subjects: Archaeology of the Americas

Series: Museum Monograph

Language: English

Although QuiriguA and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of QuiriguA.


Although Quirigua and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quirigua.

  • Edited by Edward M Schortman
  • Edited by Patricia A Urban