Archaeological research project and field school investigating the ancient Maya of the upper Belize River Valley, Cayo District
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BVAR Project retweeted
8 Aug 2023
Heritage Education Network Belize's 2023 Kulcha symposium program is out! Several project members are participating, so mark your calendar now. heritagebelize.org/symposium
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BVAR Project retweeted
11 Jul 2023
ACTUAL archaeological mysteries
* How do tarps go missing between field seasons?
* Why do I not have as much success with grants as others?
* How did we lose a datum? It's a frickin concrete cylinder in the ground!
* Can you read this person's field notes? Because I can't. 1/
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BVAR Project retweeted
30 Jun 2023
The Bonn Maya Dictionary project just released the "Maya Hieroglyphic Text and Image Archve", a growing digital repository that serves as a compendium for Maya hieroglyphic texts and imagery. Consider that the portal is work in progress. digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-… @Akademienunion
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BVAR Project retweeted
13 Jun 2023
In Belize with the @BVAR_Project and looking in awe at the amazing trees all around. Thank you Dr Jaime Awe and team for having me!
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BVAR Project retweeted
28 May 2023
In the past months we uploaded hundreds of new images of #Mayahieroglyphic texts and imagery into our open access Maya Image Archive classicmayan.kor.de.dariah.e…, the repository created by the @idiom_project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan project at @UniBonn.
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BVAR Project retweeted
23 May 2023
🥾 First day in the field for our NSF-funded project using machine learning and #lidar data to identify ancient #Maya houses in southern Belize 🇧🇿 #fieldwork #NSF
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BVAR Project retweeted
27 Apr 2023
Contents of handbags in Mesoamerica varied. Priests conveyed ritual items, nobles transported precious objects, artisans carried craft materials, etc. None were used to haul water, that was a different kind of container.
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BVAR Project retweeted
4 Apr 2023
Dr. John Walden presenting at the #SAA2023Portland on the #milpa cycle model 🌽 and #soil classes as it relates to settlement and sustainable food production in the Belize 🇧🇿 River Valley. @BVAR_Project @IA_NICH #SAA2023
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28 Mar 2023
The @BVAR_Project will be at #SAA2023 in Portland! Here is a list of presentation by project members and colleagues we work closely with. See you there!
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19 Feb 2023
With a contribution from BVAR Project director Jaime Awe!
Wow! this book looks really good!!!
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BVAR Project retweeted
14 Feb 2023
Mascaron de la Estructura 5C-82
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BVAR Project retweeted
31 Jan 2023
We are continuing to highlight project talks from the Heritage Education Network Belize Kulcha symposium in October! Don't forget to watch Dr. Rebecca Friedel Juan's talk about socioecological changes in the Mopan Valley.
youtube.com/watch?v=OwUNOHiT…
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BVAR Project retweeted
22 Jan 2023
Website of the Elijio Panti National Park Belize using @idiom_project's design of the Maya hieroglyph for "Jaguar", bahlam. The park is a protected area in Belize that focuses on the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity in the country. epnp.org/
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BVAR Project retweeted
8 Jan 2023
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BVAR Project retweeted
14 Dec 2022
Dr. Zoe Rawski has a recent publication on her research on the emergence of the institution of kinship and ritual deposits in the Preclassic at Xunantunich in the journal Mexicon. Check it out here: mexicon.de/archive/44-2022/
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BVAR Project retweeted
4 Nov 2022
Join us online or onsite at Dumbarton Oaks on December 1, 6 pm EST for a public lecture by David Stuart "Rulers from the West: Teotihuacan in Maya History and Politics."
doaks.org/research/pre-colum…
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4 Nov 2022
New publication led by @ArchaeologyAmy on ancient Maya neighborhoods in Belize, including our work on BVAR.
4 Nov 2022
🤩 Excited to share our #publication in @PLOSONE on ancient #Maya #neighborhoods🏘! This paper is the result of a collaboration of 15 #archaeological projects assessing 24 ancient Maya cities! 🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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BVAR Project retweeted
16 Oct 2022
Searching for literature on Maya? Looking for free images of Maya art, writing and sculpture? Need to calculate Maya dates in hieroglyphic texts? Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan's website mayawoerterbuch.de/ provides these sources! @idiom_project
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SBX receives 1st Place in @ICOMOS Culture-Nature Prize! Amazing honor to receive this international recognition for “significant contributions to the heritage field.” The team will co-create an illustrated dictionary of #sbmural biota & a species inventory within #MBR study area
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Amazing chance to use the #vislab @TACC @UTAustin to film #SBMural for new documentary.Vislab runs high resolution tiled-displays enabling illustrations by @heatherhurstartist to be visualized at original size. Thanks to Greg Foss & Vislab team for making the murals come to life!
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