This article on the life and work of Mayanist, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, was part of the magazine's Legends of Archaeology column.
I was born in Chicago but lived many places growing up as the daughter of a Navy Chaplain. My passion for music led me in many directions, all of which, of course, affects my writing today. My first book, Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya, is a...
"No scholar is more beloved by Mayanists than Tatiana Proskouriakoff, the Russian-born archaeologist and artist whose reconstriction drawings of sites such as Piedras Negras and Copan are world famous...
In tracing out the course of Proskouriakoff's life and career, this biography does not present us with her finished masterpieces...Instead we see those works in progress. We see the highs and lows of...
Note from the author coming soon...