S4 E6 Mapping Palenque Part 2
The continued story of how I mapped Palenque – still in 1998, field season 1 of 3. In this episode – forest fires, mangos, and skinny dipping.
Show Notes:
The continued story of how I mapped Palenque – still in 1998, field season 1 of 3. In this episode – forest fires, mangos, and skinny dipping.
Show Notes:
Best show yet. The narrative captures a sense of excitement and adventure, thanks for including the goofy little things like catching the bird with the root noose.
Some kind of tech glitch makes only about the first half audible, it cuts at the yax turtle moment, so I will have to look forward to hearing the rest after I get home.
I’ve been traveling around Thailand and Vietnam since January, about to fly to siem reap in a few days and will explore some of the more obscure Angkor sites.
I have to wonder whether the covid restrictions have been lifted at Palenque, can visitors explore the courtyards again or still banished to only gawking up from the grassy plains. I found my visit last winter so discouraging for this reason. I noticed there was not one place in the entire site where a visitor can stand next to a carving.
Still no climbing into the Palace, but every other temple reopened. They’re doing a bunch of stucco restoration work on the Palace, which might be the reason its still closed.
Able to reload and hear the rest. Here’s why I think this program is your best yet: scientific discipline by day need not leave us above skinny dipping in a lightning storm. Sanitized retellings are not the rich picture these narratives are.
Merle green, with her recollections about how it felt to stand in the water inside pacals tomb to make the rubbing, and have the lights go out, and so on remind us that archaeology is a calling and a challenge and an inspiration, and that we can feel a powerful connection to the places while still doing our most creditable work by day. Scientific insights should be balanced by the poetic. Perhaps that is why Ruz and Tatiana’s remains were buried in the jungle and not their home churchyards. Not everybody’s workday includes being beset by army ants and snakes.
Seriously, this is the type of program I’ve been waiting for, and I will become a renewing financial supporter, (you’re right, I’ve never heard of Patreon before now but I’ve been an npr member for decades)
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Thanks David! Part 3 coming up in just 48 hours.