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                                                                                                                                                                                 Photo: Phillip Hofstetter.


ArchaeoPlanet provides
research papers, reports, and other materials by
Lawrence G. Desmond,Ph.D., and his colleagues.


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informative links to web sites that focus on
World Archaeology,  Heritage Preservation , and  Archaeology & Technology.

 

Announcing
a new book
by

Lawrence G. Desmond, Ph.D.

Yucatán through her eyes. Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, writer and expeditionary photographer.

Description:
        Alice Dixon (1851-1910) was born into a comfortable middle class life in London that she eagerly left behind to travel to Yucatán as the young bride of Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. Working side by side as photographers and archaeologists, the Le Plongeons were the first to excavate and systematically photograph the Maya sites of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. After spending eleven years in the field, she devoted the rest of her life to lecturing and published books and articles on a wide range of topics, including her exploration of Maya civilization, political activism and social justice, and epic poetry.
        Alice's papers became public in 1999 and included photographs, unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and a handwritten diary; over two thousand of her prints and negatives survive today in public and private collections. Combined with Lawrence Desmond's biography of this remarkable woman's life, her diary offers readers a rare glimpse of life in the Yucatán peninsula during the final quarter of the nineteenth century, and an insider's view of fieldwork just prior to the emergence of Mesoamerican archaeology as a professional discipline.

Date of release: March 16, 2009.
Size: 7x10 inches.
376 pages, 69 halftones, 3 maps.
Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8263-4595-0
University of New Mexico Press