Posted January 6, 2025
by Nicholas Hellmuth
Senaida Ba of the document scanning team of FLAAR Mesoamerica has dedicated many days to scan the entire published edition of Nicholas Hellmuth’s PhD dissertation to make this available to students, scholars, and the general public who are interested in Maya art, iconography, pantheon and archaeology.
Even though the text is auf Deutsch, the captions for the illustrations are also in English. Many of the photographs of Maya art are in color in this German edition. All captions to all 727 photos and line drawings are both in German and in English. Foreword by Michael D. Coe is in English. Discussion of Maya Archaeology, list and definitions of Maya deities in English. Footnotes and Summary are in English.
Published by the Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria. Hellmuth got his PhD from the Karl-Franzens Universitaet, Graz, Austria in 1986.
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Monster und Menschen in der Maya-Kunst, 727 drawings and photos in book of 403 pages. |
Surface of the Underwaterworld, 1987 publication of English edition of Hellmuth’s PhD dissertation, Vol. I, text. |
Surface of the Underwaterworld, 1987 publication of English edition of Hellmuth’s PhD dissertation, Vol. II, illustrations. |
