Ground Penetrating Radar

• A Geophysical Survey of the Great Plaza and Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, 1993.  Report I.   Report submitted to the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Centro Regional Yucatan, Mexico.  This report was published as:  "A geophysical survey of the Great Plaza and Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico."  In, Proceedings of the Eighth Palenque Roundtable Conference, pp. 271-280, 1996.  San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute.  Authors: Lawrence G. Desmond, William A. Sauck, James M. Callaghan, John Muehlhausen, and Kristen Zschomler.

• A Geophysical Survey of the Great Plaza and Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, 1993.  Report II.  Report submitted to the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Centro Regional Yucatan, Mexico.  This report was published as part of: "A geophysical survey of the Great Plaza and Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico."  In, Proceedings of the Eighth Palenque Roundtable Conference, pp. 271-280, 1996.  San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute. Authors: Lawrence G. Desmond, William A. Sauck, James M. Callaghan, John Muehlhausen, and Kristen Zschomler.

• Entering the Maya Underworld: A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.   In, Innovation et Technologie au Service de Patrimoine de l'Humanite, Actes du colloque organise par Admitech en collaboration avec  l'Unesco, Paris, pp. 23-30, 24 Juin 1996, .  Authors: Lawrence G. Desmond and William A. Sauck.

• Abstract: Yucatan Ground Penetrating Radar Project 1997: Chichen Itza.  Additional GPR surveys at Balankanche, Izamal, and Dzibilchaltun.  1997. Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Yucatan Ground Penetrating Radar Project 1997: Chichen Itza.  Additional GPR surveys at Balankanche, Izamal, and Dzibilchaltun.  Report submitted to Ing. Joaquin Garcia Barcena, President of the Committee of Archaeology, of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, Mexico City.  This report was published as: "Preliminary GPR results from four Maya sites, Yucatan, Mexico.”   In, Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Ground-Penetrating Radar, GPR '98, 2 volumes, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Vol. I, pp. 101-113, May 1998.   Lawrence: University of Kansas, Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory, ISBN 0-936352-16-7.   Authors:  Lawrence G. Desmond,  William A. Sauck, and Rene E. Chavez.

• A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey from the Top, and Area Adjacent to the North Side of Structure 44, Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico.  February 10-11, 1997.  Report submitted to Ing. Joaquin Garcia Barcena, President of the Committee of Archaeology, of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, Mexico City, 1999.  Authors: William A. Sauck and Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Reporte de los resultados del rastreo de Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) desde la parte superior y área adjunta al lado norte de la Estructura 44,  Dzibilchaltún, Yucatán, México, 10-11 Febrero 1977.  Report submitted to Ing. Joaquin Garcia Barcena, President of the Committee of Archaeology, of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, Mexico City, 1999.  Authors: William A. Sauck and Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Radar may reveal Mayan rituals.  Written by science writer Vincent Landon of SwissInfo-- Swiss Radio International.  This article was first published on SwissInfo.Org web site on April 14, 2002.  It is based on an interview of archaeologist Lawrence G. Desmond and archaeologist Juerg Leckebusch of Zuirch, Switzerland.  It summarizes past geophysical research at Chichen Itza carried out by Desmond and geophysicist William A. Sauck in collaboration with Mexican scholars including geophyicist Rene Chavez of UNAM, archaeologist Linda Manzanilla of UNAM, archaeologist James Callaghan who is director of the Kiuic bioreserve in Yucatan, and archaeologist Tim Tucker of Puebla, Mexico.  The purpose of the GPR projects have been to test the usefullness of GPR in the Yucatan environment, and to locate caves and chambers associated with the Castillo Pyramid at Chichen Itza.  Surveys thus far have located a number of buried cultural features in the Great Plaza including a filled-in trench that may have been been constructed by the ancient Maya to access chambers under or near the Castillo Pyramid.

Close-range Photogrammetry

• The application of Close-range Photogrammetry to Archaeology:  Chichen Itza and Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico, 1989.  In, Virginia M. Fields, Ed., Proceedings of the Seventh Palenque Roundtable Conference, Vol. IX, pp. 43-48, 1994.  San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Registro Fotogrametrico de La Piramide del Adivino, Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico:  Evaluation de Campo, 1990.  In, Lorena Mirambell S., ed., Consejo de Arqueologia Boletin, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, pp. 75-78, 1991.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Photogrammetric Recording of the Adivino Pyramid, Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico: Field Evaluations 1990.   In, Lorena Mirambell S., ed., Consejo de Arqueologia Boletin, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, pp. 75-78, 1991.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• A Feasibility Study of Close-Range Photogrammetry for the Survey of Building facades along canals in Venice, Italy, 1994.   Report submitted to UNESCO, Regional Office for Science and Technology, Venice, Italy, 1994.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Gateway  into the past:  Photogrammetric documentation of the Arch, Labna, Yucatan, Mexico.  In, Luis Barba P. (ed.), Antropología y Técnica, IIA, UNAM, Vol.7, pp. 55-66, 2003.   Authors: Lawrence G. Desmond,  Patrick Collins, Tomas Gallareta N., and James Callaghan.

• Gateway to the Past.   Abstract only.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Adivino Pyramid, Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico, Close-range Stereo-Photogrammetry Documentation Project, 1999.  In, The PARI Journal,  a quarterly publication of the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, Vol. II, No.1, pp. 19-22, Winter 2001.   Authors: Lawrence G. Desmond,  Roberto Centeno L., Paul G. Bryan, Michael Clowes, and James Callaghan.

• Photogrammetric survey of the Adivino Pyramid at the Maya archaeological site of Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico.  In, Hal Thwaites and Alonso Addison, eds., Proceeding of the Seventh Interenational Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 25-27 October, Berkeley, pp. 57-64.  Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society.  ISBN 0-7695-1402-2.  Authors: Lawrence G. Desmond, and Paul G. Bryan.

• Recording architecture at the archaeological site of Uxmal, Mexico: A historical and contemporary view.  In, The Photogrammetric Record, 18(102): 105-130, June, 2003.  Authors: Lawrence G. Desmond and Paul G. Bryan.

• A historical overview of recording architecture at the ancient Maya city of Uxmal, Yucatan (Mexico), 1834 to 2007.  In, Philippe Della Casa and Elena Mango, eds., Panorama: Imaging ruins of the Greek and Maya worlds. 2007  Zurich: Archaeological Institute, University of Zurich.  ISBN 978-3-905099-28-7

Augustus Le Plongeon, Alice Dixon, and the history of archaeology

• A Dream of Maya: Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon in 19th Century Yucatan.   University of New Mexico Press, 1988.  Authors:  Lawrence G. Desmond and Phyllis M. Messenger.

• Review of A Dream of Maya, "The Cradle of Civilization?," by Brian Fagan, New York Times, October 23, 1988.

• Review of A Dream of Maya, "A Pair of Mayanists," by George E. Stuart, Science, May 1989.  Access to review requires subscription.

• Review of A Dream of Maya.  By Catherine Burroughs, Latin American Anthropology Review, Spring 1989.  Access to review requires subscription.

• Augustus Le Plongeon and Alice Dixon Le Plongeon: Early Photographic Documentation at Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico."   In, Mesoamerica: The Journal of Middle America, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 27-31, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 1989.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Of Facts and Hearsay: Bringing Augustus Le Plongeon into Focus.  In, Andrew L. Christenson, Ed., Tracing Archaeology's Past, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 139-150,1989.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Rediscovery: Exploration and Documentation.  In, Jane Turner, Ed., The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 21, Part X, pp. 262-264, 1996.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Augustus Le Plongeon: A fall from archaeological grace.  In Alice B. Kehoe and Mary Beth Emmerichs, Eds., Assembling the Past: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology, University of New Mexico University Press, pp. 81-90, 1999.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• 3-D Stereo Photographs (glasses with red lens on right and blue lens on left required) of Uxmal and Chichen Itza by Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon taken in 1875.  John Hoopes' Web Page.

• Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908): Early Mayanist, Archaeologist, and Photographer.   In, David Carrasco, Ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, 3 Vols.,  New York, Oxford University Press, Vol. 2, pp. 117-118, 2001.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• Prologue to the Spanish translation of Here and There in Yucatan by Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, 1886.   Bibliographic reference: Le Plongeon, Alice Dixon.  1886.  Here and There in Yucatan.  New York: J. W. Bouton.  Spanish edition:  2001  Aquí y Allá en Yucatán.  Traducción por Stella Mastrangelo Puech.  Prólogo por Lawrence G. Desmond y Jaime Litvak King. México: Mirada Viajera.

• The papers and photographs of Augustus and Alice Dixon Le Plongeon at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California.  This is a finding aid to a collection of over 1,200 Le Plongeon photographs including lantern slides,stereo cards, prints, and collodion glass plate negatives.  The acquisition also includes a rich collection of textual material such as published and unpublished manuscripts by Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, and correspondence from Alice and Augustus’ years in Mexico and Belize, and from Augustus’ years in Peru during the 1860s.

• The Lawrence G. Desmond Collection of Le Plongeon photographs and other research materials at the Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  The Lawrence G. Desmond Collection comprises copies of Le Plongeon photographic materials at American Museum of Natural History, Donald Dixon Album, Getty Research Institute, Peabody Museum at Harvard University, and the Philosophical Research Society.

• The Catalog of the Nineteenth Century Photographs of Alice Dixon Le Plongeon and Augustus Le Plongeon: A catalog of collections from the American Museum of Natural  History, Donald Dixon Album, Getty Research Institute, Peabody Museum at Harvard University, and the Philosophical Research Society.  This download is lilmited to the first 28 pages of the catalog that include: Table of Contents, Dedication, Preface, Acknowledgements, and the Introduction to Collections.  The entire catalog including introductory material and a data base for the photographic collections is available below as a PDF.

• The Catalog of the Nineteenth Century Photographs of Alice Dixon Le Plongeon and Augustus Le Plongeon: A catalog of collections from the American Museum of Natural  History, Donald Dixon Album, Getty Research Institute, Peabody Museum at Harvard University, and the Philosophical Research Society. 416 pages. Authored and compliled by Lawrence G. Desmond.  © Lawrence G. Desmond, 2005.  Permission is granted to download the entire catalog as an Adobe PDF. 2.5Mb.  The publication includes: Table of Contents, Dedication, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction to the Collections, and The Catalog of 1,054 photographs. The catalog is text only, and does not include copies of the photographs that are available at the individual archives or the duplicate collection at the Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the Lawrence G. Desmond Collection of Le Plongeon Photographs.  The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles acquired a collection of more than 1,200 Le Plongeon photographs and other materials in 2004, and that collection can be accessed through the GRI finding aid for photographic collections.  Please note that all material in The Catalog available through this web site may be quoted, but, as with all scholarly work, the author must be credited.

• A historical overview of recording architecture at the ancient Maya city of Uxmal, Yucatan (Mexico), 1834 to 2007.  In, Philippe Della Casa and Elena Mango, eds., Panorama: Imaging ruins of the Greek and Maya worlds.  Zurich: Archaeological Institute, University of Zurich, pp. 6-13. 2007. ISBN 978-3-905099-28-7.

• Excavation of the Platform of Venus, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico: The pioneering fieldwork of Alice Dixon Le Plongeon and Augustus Le Plongeon.  A paper in honor of Mexican archaeologist Jaime Litvak King, In, Paul Schmidt Schoenberg, Edith Ortiz Díaz, Joel Santos Ramírez, eds., Tributo a  Jaime Litvak King.  México: UNAM. Instituto de Investigaciones  Antropológicas,. Pp. 155-166. 2008. ISBN978-970-32-4809-4.

• The Modern Maya: A Culture in Transition by Macduff Everton.  Edited by Ulrich Keller and Charles Demangate with essays by Ulrich Keller and Dorie Reents-Budet.  University of New Mexico Press, 1991.  Reviewed by Lawrence G. Desmond and James M. Callaghan, in Museum Anthropology, Vol. 17, No. 1,1993.  American Anthropological Association, Arlington,  Virginia.

• Chacmool.  In, David Carrasco, Ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, 3 Vols., New York, Oxford University Press, Vol.1, pp. 168-169.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

• "Cultural Resources Management: What, Why and for Whom?"  Response by Lawrence G. Desmond to the James J. Hester article.  In, High Plains Applied Anthropologist, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 69-75, Spring 1996.  Author: Lawrence G. Desmond.

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