Mayan Site Excavation

在这项研究中，Fash博士将继续挖掘结构 10 L-26位于洪都拉斯的科潘现场。 部位 科潘是一个主要的玛雅中心，它记录了 玛雅文明的衰落。 结构10 L-26 是一个土丘，里面有一个楼梯，通往一座寺庙， 顶部。 它是人类历史上最重要也是最不为人所知的 所有的玛雅遗迹 一块刻在石头上的铭文覆盖着 楼梯和上层建筑的正面，这是 在新大陆原住民中流传最久 不幸的是， 楼梯上的文字有一半掉下来被埋了 更严重的是， 暴露在自然环境中的楼梯铭文是 正在迅速恶化 这项研究的目的是 继续挖掘楼梯的掩埋部分， 按正确的顺序组装积木，然后记录，翻译 解读铭文 考古学家逐渐意识到不同的玛雅遗址 并不是孤立发展的。 各地区之间的战争和贸易， 彼此之间有规律地相互影响， 邻国的衰落。 为了了解 个别网站，有必要将它们设置在一个区域 事实上，在一个更大的背景下思考 而不是单个网站。 即使该等票据已 只有部分翻译，据信， 在纪念碑上记录了一场战争及其结果与邻国 状态 通过翻译文本， 将这些信息纳入更广泛的考古学框架， 应该可以详细说明站点间一个方面 关系 这项研究很重要，因为它将增加我们的 理解我们这样的复杂社会。 它将 特别是显示这些实体是如何出现， 然后下降。 由于这些进程所涵盖的时间不是几十年， 几千年来，考古学的数据 适合这个目的。

In this research Dr. Fash will continue excavation of structure 10L-26 located at the site of Copan in Honduras. The site of Copan is a major Mayan center which documents the rise and subsequent decline of the Mayan civilization. Structure 10L-26 is a mound which contained a stairway which led to a temple on the top. It is one of the most important and least understood of all Maya monuments. An inscription carved in stone covered the stairway and the facade of the superstructure and this is the longest known in the aboriginal New World. Unfortunately, over half the stairway text fell and was buried. Even more seriously, the stairway inscription, exposed to the elements is deteriorating at a rapid rate. The goal of this research is to continue excavation of the buried portions of the stairway, assemble the blocks in the right order and then record, translate and interpret the inscription. Archaeologists have come to realize that different Mayan sites did not develop in isolation. Regions fought and traded, regularly with each other and thus each influenced the growth and decline of its neighbors. To understand the history of individual sites, it is necessary to set them in a regional context and in fact it probably makes more sense to think in terms of regions than individual sites. Although they have been only partially translated, it is believed that the inscriptions on the monument record a war and its outcome with a neighboring state. Through translation of the text and then incorporation of this information into a broader archaeological framework, it should be possible to both detail one aspect of intersite relations. This research is important because it will increase our understanding of complex societies such as our own. It will show, in particular how such entities emerge, are maintained and then decline. Since such processes cover not decades but thousands of years, archaeological data are particularly well suited to this purpose.