Early Copan Acropolis program
Subtitle: December, 1997
Contributors: Sedat, David W., 1948-; Sharer, Robert J.; Harris, John F. (John Ferguson); Carlson, John B.; Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania; Antiquities; Research; University of Pennsylvania. University Museum; Mayas; Copán Site (Honduras)
Notes: "... an informal series of short reports detailing recent discoveries ... related to the ongoing investigations of the University of Pennsylvania Museum's Early Copan Acropolis Program (ECAP). ... ECAP papers are for circulation among researchers to elicit discussion and guide future inquiry; they are not intended for publication ..."-- Footnote, p. 9.

Includes bibliographical references.

LC copy has provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.
Table of contents: title: 1. Political and ideological power and the origins of the Acropolis / R.J. Sharer; title: 2. The founding stage of the Copan Acropolis; title: 3. The earliest ancestor to Capan Str. 10L-16; title: 4. Yehnal structure: an early dynastic structure at Copan / D.W. Sedat; title: 5. Initial research and preliminary findings from the Hunal tomb / R.J. Sharer; title: 6. Margarita structure: new data and implications; title: 7. Vessel 1 from the Margarita tomb / D. W. Sedat; title: 8. Continuity and change in the early Acropolis; title: 9. The tombs of the Copan and Quirigua founders; title: 10. Formation of sacred space by the first kings of Copan; title: 11. Yax K'uk' Mo' and Copan's early external connections / R.J. Sharer; title: 12. The Xucpi stone text / J. Harris; title: 13. The Margarita structure panels and the Maya cosmogonic couplet of ancestral emergence / J.B. Carlson.