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BVAR Project

@BVAR_Project

Archaeological research project and field school investigating the ancient Maya of the upper Belize River Valley, Cayo District

 San Ignacio, Belize
bvar.org/
Joined November 2016
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MVAP/MVPP@MVAPandMVPP8 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

Symposium — Heritage Education Network Belize

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Tlatollotl@tlatollotl11 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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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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Harriet Rix@rix_harriet13 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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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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🥾 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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Replying to @ancient_view
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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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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Mascaron de la Estructura 5C-82
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MVAP/MVPP@MVAPandMVPP31 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…
Ancient Maya Transformations in the Mopan River valley: A socioecological perspective

Ancient Maya Transformations in the Mopan River valley: A socioecological perspective

Synopsis: Researchers have long aimed to understand the social and ...

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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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Belize News
@belizenews8 Jan 2023
#Belize Beach erosion #BelizeNews news.un.org/en/story/2023/01…
‘I don’t want to see more graves go to the sea’: Saving a Belize village from man-made erosion

‘I don’t want to see more graves go to the sea’: Saving a Belize village from man-made erosion

Rising sea levels are threatening the very existence of Monkey River, a coastal village in south-east Belize. With the support of the UN, the community is trying to stem the tide, and protect what is...

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MVAP/MVPP@MVAPandMVPP14 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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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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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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Our ceramicist has a temper.
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Congratulations🎉 to @PittAnthIsotope Lab member and @BVAR_Project grad student Emma Messinger on successfully defending her dissertation proposal “Ritual Plant Use in the Maya Lowlands”! 1/4 – at Pittsburgh, PA
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Lab member and @PittTweet Anthropology grad student Emma Messinger presents her research on a database for exploring ritual plant use in the Maya Lowlands #saa2022chicago
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