How I Mapped Palenque Part 6
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In the summer of 1999, Ed and crew were risking life and limb to map the western side of Palenque. More snakes, more fantastic discoveries, and more crazy stories of life in Chiapas, Mexico.
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Kirk and Ed mapping along the Piedras Bolas River
Moises Morales, 1999
The PMP project house in El Panchan, 1999
Palenque’s forest from a helicopter in 1999
Another fun listen. So many significant finds were made in 1999. I’m curious about whether your field season was at the same time as the temple 19 discoveries and the general excitement that year. Were some of the incensarios in the museum also discovered that year, were there fun stories about the placement of the video camera into the newly discovered tomb? It seems hard to believe that private landholders are freely looting to this day at a leisurely pace. I tried to cross check your site map with the areas you describe in the narrative and it is tricky because I’m only quickly finding the ‘project of the cross’ maps that are shown as multiple smaller area maps.
Temple XIX and XX discoveries were indeed made in that same year, 1999. The incensarios in the museum were mostly found a few years earlier by INAH, but some of them were from the side of the Temple of the Cross and Alfonso’s 1998 excavations there. If you go to MEC’s website, there’s full Palenque maps to download there.