Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

1/1/1986 - 12/31/1987

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$64,000.00 (approved)
$35,000.00 (awarded)


History, Political Organization, and World View at a Classic Maya Polity in Microcosm: Structure 10L-26, Copan

FAIN: RO-21240-86

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL 60115-2828)
William Fash (Project Director: March 1985 to September 1988)

To support an archaeological and iconographic investigation of Structure 10L-26 at the site of Copan, which holds the longest extant hieroglyphic inscription in the aboriginal Western Hemisphere. The research will facilitate the decipherment and interpretation of a major Late Classic Maya monument.