Alfred Percival Maudslay (18 March 1850 – 22 January 1931) was a British diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. He was one of the first Europeans to study the Guatemalan Mayan ruins.
Maudslay did his initial archaelogical studies at the Mayan ruins of Quirigua and Copan where, with the help of Frank Sarg, he hired labourers to help clear and survey the remaining structures and artefacts. Sarg also introduced Maudslay to newly found ruins in Tikal and to a reliable guide, Gorgonio López.
Maudslay was the first to describe the site of Yaxchilán in Mexico. With Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay explored Chichén Itzá in the 1880s and both spent several weeks at the site and took extensive photographs. Maudslay published the first long-form description of Chichén Itzá in his book, "Biologia Centrali-Americana".
In the course of his surveys, Maudslay pioneered many of the later archaeological techniques. He hired Italian expert Lorenzo Giuntini and technicians to make plaster casts of the carvings, while Gorgonio López made casts of papier-mâché. Artist Annie Hunter drew impressions of the casts before they were shipped to museums in England and the United States. Maudslay also took numerous detailed photographs – dry plate photography was then a new technique – and made copies of the inscriptions.
All told, Maudslay made a total of six expeditions to Maya ruins. After 13 years of preparation, he published his findings in 1902 as a 5-volume compendium entitled Biologia Centrali-Americana, which contained numerous excellent drawings and photographs of Maya ruins, Maudslay's commentary, and an appendix on archaic calendars by Joseph Thompson Goodman.
In 1892, Maudslay married US-born Anne Cary Morris, and a granddaughter of American Founding Father and a signer to the US Constitution, Gouverneur Morris.
For their October 1893 honeymoon, the couple set sail from Liverpool to New York, then by train via Chicago to San Francisco and finally by sea again via Acapulco to San José in Guatemala. From San Jose, there was now a new narrow-gauge railway which took them and all their luggage, including glass negatives and plaster for casts, to the capital. Following a long journey by horse (for Alfred) and mule (for Annie) with further mules for assistants and an additional six cargo mules, by late February 1894, the two were in Zacapá. There the Maudslays worked for two weeks on behalf of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Their account was published in 1899 as 'A Glimpse at Guatemala'.
-Wikipedia
Maudslay did his initial archaelogical studies at the Mayan ruins of Quirigua and Copan where, with the help of Frank Sarg, he hired labourers to help clear and survey the remaining structures and artefacts. Sarg also introduced Maudslay to newly found ruins in Tikal and to a reliable guide, Gorgonio López.
Maudslay was the first to describe the site of Yaxchilán in Mexico. With Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay explored Chichén Itzá in the 1880s and both spent several weeks at the site and took extensive photographs. Maudslay published the first long-form description of Chichén Itzá in his book, "Biologia Centrali-Americana".
In the course of his surveys, Maudslay pioneered many of the later archaeological techniques. He hired Italian expert Lorenzo Giuntini and technicians to make plaster casts of the carvings, while Gorgonio López made casts of papier-mâché. Artist Annie Hunter drew impressions of the casts before they were shipped to museums in England and the United States. Maudslay also took numerous detailed photographs – dry plate photography was then a new technique – and made copies of the inscriptions.
All told, Maudslay made a total of six expeditions to Maya ruins. After 13 years of preparation, he published his findings in 1902 as a 5-volume compendium entitled Biologia Centrali-Americana, which contained numerous excellent drawings and photographs of Maya ruins, Maudslay's commentary, and an appendix on archaic calendars by Joseph Thompson Goodman.
In 1892, Maudslay married US-born Anne Cary Morris, and a granddaughter of American Founding Father and a signer to the US Constitution, Gouverneur Morris.
For their October 1893 honeymoon, the couple set sail from Liverpool to New York, then by train via Chicago to San Francisco and finally by sea again via Acapulco to San José in Guatemala. From San Jose, there was now a new narrow-gauge railway which took them and all their luggage, including glass negatives and plaster for casts, to the capital. Following a long journey by horse (for Alfred) and mule (for Annie) with further mules for assistants and an additional six cargo mules, by late February 1894, the two were in Zacapá. There the Maudslays worked for two weeks on behalf of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Their account was published in 1899 as 'A Glimpse at Guatemala'.
-Wikipedia
Alfred Percival Maudslay (18 March 1850 – 22 January 1931) was a British diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. He was one of the first Europeans to study the Guatemalan Mayan ruins.
Maudslay did his initial archaelogical studies at the Mayan ruins of Quirigua and Copan where, with the help of Frank Sarg, he hired labourers to help clear and survey the remaining structures and artefacts. Sarg also introduced Maudslay to newly found ruins in Tikal and to a reliable guide, Gorgonio López.
Maudslay was the first to describe the site of Yaxchilán in Mexico. With Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay explored Chichén Itzá in the 1880s and both spent several weeks at the site and took extensive photographs. Maudslay published the first long-form description of Chichén Itzá in his book, "Biologia Centrali-Americana".
In the course of his surveys, Maudslay pioneered many of the later archaeological techniques. He hired Italian expert Lorenzo Giuntini and technicians to make plaster casts of the carvings, while Gorgonio López made casts of papier-mâché. Artist Annie Hunter drew impressions of the casts before they were shipped to museums in England and the United States. Maudslay also took numerous detailed photographs – dry plate photography was then a new technique – and made copies of the inscriptions.
All told, Maudslay made a total of six expeditions to Maya ruins. After 13 years of preparation, he published his findings in 1902 as a 5-volume compendium entitled Biologia Centrali-Americana, which contained numerous excellent drawings and photographs of Maya ruins, Maudslay's commentary, and an appendix on archaic calendars by Joseph Thompson Goodman.
In 1892, Maudslay married US-born Anne Cary Morris, and a granddaughter of American Founding Father and a signer to the US Constitution, Gouverneur Morris.
For their October 1893 honeymoon, the couple set sail from Liverpool to New York, then by train via Chicago to San Francisco and finally by sea again via Acapulco to San José in Guatemala. From San Jose, there was now a new narrow-gauge railway which took them and all their luggage, including glass negatives and plaster for casts, to the capital. Following a long journey by horse (for Alfred) and mule (for Annie) with further mules for assistants and an additional six cargo mules, by late February 1894, the two were in Zacapá. There the Maudslays worked for two weeks on behalf of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Their account was published in 1899 as 'A Glimpse at Guatemala'.
-Wikipedia
Maudslay did his initial archaelogical studies at the Mayan ruins of Quirigua and Copan where, with the help of Frank Sarg, he hired labourers to help clear and survey the remaining structures and artefacts. Sarg also introduced Maudslay to newly found ruins in Tikal and to a reliable guide, Gorgonio López.
Maudslay was the first to describe the site of Yaxchilán in Mexico. With Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay explored Chichén Itzá in the 1880s and both spent several weeks at the site and took extensive photographs. Maudslay published the first long-form description of Chichén Itzá in his book, "Biologia Centrali-Americana".
In the course of his surveys, Maudslay pioneered many of the later archaeological techniques. He hired Italian expert Lorenzo Giuntini and technicians to make plaster casts of the carvings, while Gorgonio López made casts of papier-mâché. Artist Annie Hunter drew impressions of the casts before they were shipped to museums in England and the United States. Maudslay also took numerous detailed photographs – dry plate photography was then a new technique – and made copies of the inscriptions.
All told, Maudslay made a total of six expeditions to Maya ruins. After 13 years of preparation, he published his findings in 1902 as a 5-volume compendium entitled Biologia Centrali-Americana, which contained numerous excellent drawings and photographs of Maya ruins, Maudslay's commentary, and an appendix on archaic calendars by Joseph Thompson Goodman.
In 1892, Maudslay married US-born Anne Cary Morris, and a granddaughter of American Founding Father and a signer to the US Constitution, Gouverneur Morris.
For their October 1893 honeymoon, the couple set sail from Liverpool to New York, then by train via Chicago to San Francisco and finally by sea again via Acapulco to San José in Guatemala. From San Jose, there was now a new narrow-gauge railway which took them and all their luggage, including glass negatives and plaster for casts, to the capital. Following a long journey by horse (for Alfred) and mule (for Annie) with further mules for assistants and an additional six cargo mules, by late February 1894, the two were in Zacapá. There the Maudslays worked for two weeks on behalf of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Their account was published in 1899 as 'A Glimpse at Guatemala'.
-Wikipedia
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