http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2011/06/03/the-adventures-of-james-fitzsimmons/ Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2011/06/03/the-adventures-of-james-fitzsimmons/#comment-13307 Judith Strupp Green Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:29:27 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=4588#comment-13307 This story is good news for Mesoamerican archaeology. James Fitzimmons is obviously a man with a plan for rescate that pleases the locals (with providing casts) and preserves hieroglyphic texts that are critical for understanding the Maya and their situation in this less-studied region of the Peten. Hixwitz/Zapote Bobal must have had an interesting and complicated history surrounded by powerful warring kingships. I have a small part in that I’m working on iconography and texts on ceramics from that area from museum and private collections that are coming to light gradually as that region was so badly looted in the past.
This brings me to a question related to Hixwitz. A colleague told me that last year in

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Madrid at the European Maya conference there was a report that the name Hixwitz was actually Hixhitz, but he had to miss the talk and didn’t know if it was convincing and whether we should be spelling this favorite site differently.
At any rate, I enjoyed the article which was so well written that I felt I was there.

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]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/2011/06/03/the-adventures-of-james-fitzsimmons/#comment-259 Adventures at Zapote Bobal « Maya Decipherment Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:00:11 +0000 http://sites.middlebury.edu/middmag/?p=4588#comment-259 [...] Magazine has recently published a fine story on James Fitzsimmons of Middlebury College and his on-going important rescate work at the ruins of Zapote Bobal, [...]

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