Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Subtitle: Interpreting the Ancient Maya
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780806134451
Subjects: Biography: general; Historiography; BCE to c 500 CE; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Mayan languages; History Of Archaeology; Pre-Columbian Archaeology; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography/Autobiography; Guatemala; Names, Mayan; Women; Writing; 1909-; Inscriptions, Mayan; Proskouriakoff, Tatiana,
First sentence: In winter 1939, just three weeks after her thirtieth birthday, Tania stood alone on the deck of the SS San Gil, a banana cargo boat operated by the United Fruit Company.
Description: "A pioneering figure in Mesoamerican archaeology, Tatiana Proskouriakoff successfully challenged established beliefs about Maya civilization and helped provide scholars with a revolutionary approach to the decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs. At a time when men of wealth dominated the field of Mesoamerican exploration and women archaeologists were rare, Proskouriakoff excelled.

In the first full-length biography of Proskouriakoff, Char Solomon chronicles the life of this remarkable woman."--BOOK JACKET.