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Recent Publications.

  • Rossi, F. and D. Stuart. 2020. Stela 30: A New Window into Eighth Century Xultun. Mexicon 42(1):12-15.

  • Stuart, D., H. Hurst, B. Beltrán, W. Saturno. 2022. An early Maya calendar record from San Bartolo, Guatemala. Science Advances 8(2022):1-12.

  • Santini, L., S. Weber, J. Marston, A. Runggaldier. 2022. First archaeological identification of nixtamalized maize, from two pit latrines at the ancient Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science 143(2022):105581.

  • Newman, S. and F. Rossi. 2022. The Fox and the Armadillo: An inquiry into Classic Maya “animal” categories. Ancient Mesoamerica doi.org/10.1017/S0956536121000638

  • Beltrán, B. 2021. Religious architecture at San Bartolo, Petén, Guatemala (Japanese translation by Shintaro Suzuki). Quarterly of Archaeological Studies, Vol. 67, No. 4 (268), March 2021: 89-92. Okayama, Japan

  • Clarke, M., A. Sharpe, E. Hannigan, M. Carden, G. Luna, B. Beltran and H. Hurst. 2021. Revisiting the Past: Material Negotiations between the Ancient Maya and an Entombed Sweat Bath at Xultun, Guatemala. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31(1):67-94

  • Hurst, H. 2020. Maya Mural Painting. In The Maya World, edited by Scott R. Hutson and Traci Ardren, pp. 578-598. Routledge.

Events & Exhibitions

“7000 Fragments” at Tang Museum, Skidmore College (C. Massa/Skidmore College)

“7000 Fragments” at Tang Museum, Skidmore College (C. Massa/Skidmore College)

Watch the Virtual Lecture by Heather Hurst for the BEARC

Watch the virtual lecture, “Assembling the World’s Most Difficult Puzzle: The Broken Maya Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala” presented by Heather Hurst for the Boundary End Archaeology Research Center YouTube channel, (aired February 24, 2021).

See the San Bartolo Murals in “Maya: The Exhibition”

“Maya: The Exhibition - The Great Jaguar Rises” will be on display at the Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri (through March 2023).

Original Mural Fragments now on display at the Museo Nacional, Guatemala City

Visit the permanent exhibit at the Museo Nacional de Arqueología e Etnología, Guatemala City, to see reassembled fragments from the Sub 1A, Ixim, and Ixbalamque murals of San Bartolo.

Project Reports

Saturno, William A. David Stuart, Hector Escobedo, and Ian Graham (eds.). 2001. Reconocimiento Arqueológico y Conservación de San Bartolo, Guatemala. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

Saturno, William A. and Mónica Urquizú (eds.). 2002.   Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo, Petén: Informe No. 1, Primera Temporada de Campo 2002. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala.

 Saturno, William A., and Monica Urquizú (eds.). 2003. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo, 2a. Temporada 2003. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Saturno, William A., and Monica Urquizú (eds.). 2004. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo, 3a. Temporada 2004. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Saturno, William A., and Monica Urquizú (eds.). 2005. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo, 4a. Temporada 2005. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Urquizú, Monica and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2006. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo, 5a. Temporada 2006. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

Saturno, William A., and Monica Urquizú (eds.). 2007. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo, 6a. Temporada 2007. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Urquizú, Monica and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2008. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo, 7a. Temporada 2008. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

Romero, Luis Alberto and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2009.   Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo, 8a. Temporada 2009. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala.

Romero, Luis Alberto and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2010.   Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo, 9a.Temporada 2010. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala.

Romero, Luis Alberto and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2011. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional San Bartolo, 10a.Temporada 2011. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala.

Castillo, Patricia Rivera, and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2012. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo-Xultun, 11a. Temporada 2012. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Castillo, Patricia Rivera (ed.). 2013. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo-Xultun, 12a. Temporada 2013. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Castillo, Patricia Rivera, and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2014. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo-Xultun, 13a. Temporada 2014. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Cifuentes, Yasmin, and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2015. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo-Xultun, 14a. Temporada 2015. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Beltrán, Boris, and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2016. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo-Xultun, 15a. Temporada 2016. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Beltrán, Boris, Heather Hurst, and William A. Saturno (eds.). 2017. Proyecto Arqueológico Regional de San Bartolo-Xultun, 16a. Temporada 2017. Report for the Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala.

 Beltrán, Boris y Heather Hurst (eds.). 2019. Proyecto Regional Arqueológico de San Bartolo-Xultun, Resultados de Investigaciones, año 2019. Report for the Dirección General del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural de Guatemala.

Project Theses

Beltrán, Boris. 2015. Hunahpu, un complejo conmemorativo del Preclásico Medio del sitio arqueológico San Bartolo, Flores, Petén. Tesis de licenciatura. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.

Craig, Jessica. 2010. Shifting Perceptions of Sacred Spaces: Ceremonial Reuse of Maya Architecture and Monuments at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas.

Clarke, Mary. 2020. Producing Stone and State: The Intersection of Ancient Maya Domestic and Institutional Economies in Classic Maya Society. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University.

Coronado-Ruiz, Anabella. 2013. The Ethics of Ruins in Petén, Guatemala: Problematizing Architectural Conservation in the Context of People, Practice, and Politics. Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Davies, Diane. 2012. Past identities, present legitimation: The reuse of a Late Preclassic residential group at the Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala. Doctoral dissertation, Tulane University.

 Garrison, Thomas. 2007. Ancient Maya Territories, Adaptive Regions, and Alliances: Contextualizing the San Bartolo-Xultun Intersite Survey. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.

 Griffin, Robert E.. 2012. The Carrying Capacity of Ancient Maya Swidden Cultivation: A Case Study in the Region around San Bartolo, Peten, Guatemala. Doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University.

 Hurst, Heather. 2009. Murals and the Ancient Maya Artist: A Study of Art Production in the Guatemalan Lowlands. Doctoral dissertation, Yale University.

 Kwoka, Joshua. 2014. Ideological presentism and the study of ancient technology: Preclassic Maya lithic production at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Doctoral dissertation, University at Buffalo, SUNY.

 Rivera Castillo, Patricia. 2009. Secuencia cerámica del periodo Preclásico del sitio arqueológico San Bartolo, Flores, Petén Guatemala. Tesis de licenciatura, área arqueología, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.

 Rossi, Franco. 2015. The Brothers Taaj: Civil-Religious Orders and Politics of Expertise in Late Maya Statecraft. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University.

 Ruane, Jonathan. 2015. Hydrology and classic Maya urban planning: a geospatial analysis of settlement and water management at Xultun, Guatemala. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University.

 Runggaldier, Astrid. 2009. Memory and Materiality in Monumental Architecture: Construction and Reuse of a Late Preclassic Maya Palace at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University.

 Santini, Lauren. 2016. The Fabricated Forest. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.

 Wildt, Jennifer. 2015. A tale of three plazas: the development and use of public spaces in a classic Maya ritual and residential complex at Xultun, Guatemala. Doctoral dissertation, Boston University.

Selected Bibliography

Monographs

Saturno, W., K. A. Taube and D. Stuart. 2005. The Murals of San Bartolo, El Petén, Guatemala, Part 1: The North Wall. Ancient America 7, Center for Ancient American Studies, Barnardsville.

Taube, K. A. W. Saturno, D. Stuart and H. Hurst. 2010. The Murals of San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala, Part 2: The West Wall. Ancient America 10, Center for Ancient American Studies, Barnardsville.

Articles

Beltrán, B. and E. Román. 2008. Características Diagnósticas Preclásicas Presentes en la Píramide de las Pinturas, San Bartolo, Petén. En XXI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala. 2007, J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo y H. Mejía (eds.), pp. 577-588. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnologia, Guatemala.

Clarke, M., A. Sharpe, E. Hannigan, M. Carden, G. Luna, B. Beltrán and H. Hurst. 2019. Revisiting the Past: Material Negotiations between the Ancient Maya and an Entombed Sweat Bath at Xultun, Guatemala. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31(1):67-94.

Dunning, N., R. Griffin, T. Sever, W. Saturno, and J. Jones. 2016. The Nature and Origins of Linear Features in the Bajo de Azúcar, Guatemala: Implications for Ancient Maya Adaptation to a Changing Environment. Geoarchaeology 32(1):107-129.

Hurst, H. 2005. San Bartolo: Técnicas de Pintura Mural Preclásico Tardío. En XVIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala. 2004, J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo y H. Mejía (eds.), pp. 639-646. Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala, Guatemala City.

Hurst, H. and C. O’Grady. 2015. Maya Mural Art as Collaboration: Verifying Artists Hands at San Bartolo, Guatemala through Pigment and Plaster Composition. En Beyond Iconography: Materials, Methods, and Meaning in Ancient Surface Decoration. Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture, S. Lepinski and S. McFadden (eds.), pp. 35-57. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America.

O'Grady, C. and H. Hurst. 2011. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Conservation of Preclassic Maya Wall Paintings from San Bartolo, Guatemala. En ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Preprints, J. Bridgland (ed.), pp. 869-879. Lisbon.

Pellecer Alecio, M. 2006.  El Grupo Jabalí: Unn complejo arquitectónico de patron triádico en San Bartolo, Petén. En XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2005, J.P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, and H. Mejía (eds.), pp. 1018-1030. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.

Román, E., H. Hurst, K. A. Taube, D. Stuart and W. Saturno. 2009. Estructuras ceremoniales del periodo Preclásico: Ixim, un ejemplo de ello. En XXIII Simposio de Investigacíones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2008, J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, and H. Mejía (eds.), pp. 1356-1370. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City.

Rossi, F.D. 2018. Pedagogy and State: An Archaeological Inquiry in Classic Maya Educational Practice. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 28(1):85-102.

Rossi, F., W. Saturno, and H. Hurst. 2015. Maya Codex Book Production and the Politics of Expertise: Archaeology of a Classic Period Household at Xultun, Guatemala. American Anthropologist 117(1): 116-132.

Rossi, F. and D. Stuart. 2020. “Stela 30: A New Window into Eighth Century Xultun.” Mexicon 42(1):12-15.

Saturno, W. 2009. Centering the Kingdom, Centering the King: Maya Creation and Legitimization at San Bartolo. En The Art of Urbanism: How Mesamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery, editado por W.L. Fash y L. López Luján, pp. 111-134. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.

Saturno, W., D. Stuart y B. Beltrán. 2006. Early Maya Writing at San Bartolo, Guatemala. Science 311: 1281-1283.

Saturno, W., H. Hurst, F. Rossi, y D. Stuart. 2015. To Set Before the King: Residential Mural Painting at Xultun, Guatemala. Antiquity 89(143):122-136.

Saturno, W., F. Rossi, D. Stuart, y H. Hurst. 2017. A Maya Curia Regis: Evidence for a Hierarchical Specialist Order at Xultun, Guatemala. Ancient Mesoamerica 28(2): 423-440.

Saturno, W., D. Stuart, A. Aveni, y F. Rossi. 2012. Ancient Maya Astronomical Tables from Xultun, Guatemala. Science 336(6082):714-717.

Urquizú, M. y H. Hurst. 2002.  Las Pinturas Murales de San Bartolo: Una Ventana al Arte y Cosmovisión del Hombre Prehispánico. En XVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala 2002, J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, H. L. Escobedo and H. Mejía (eds.), pp. 325-334. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala.