Publisher's Synopsis
In 2006, the University Press of Colorado published "The Carnegie Maya: The Carnegie Institution of Washington Maya Research Program, 1913-1957". This volume made available once again to scholars the extensive data published in the CIW Year Book series. The "Carnegie Maya II: Carnegie Institution of Washington Current Reports, 1952-1957" continues this project by republishing the CIW "Current Reports" series. The final CIW field project took place in July of 1950, in the Maya region of Mayapan, where extensive and detailed investigations were conducted for five years. To ensure the rapid dissemination of the results of the Mayapan Project, two series of papers described the work being undertaken and reported the preliminary findings. These were volumes 50 to 57 of the Year Books and numbers 1 to 41 of the Current Reports. A total of forty one Current Reports were published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1952 to 1957. All forty one of these are reproduced in "The Carnegie Maya II", accompanied by an introduction by John Weeks, a forward by Marilyn Masson, and a summary table of data compiled by Marilyn Masson regarding artefacts unearthed at Mayapan.
