October 21, 2005
FAMSI - 30's, U Penn, Piedras Negras

A note from Ron Canter:

FAMSI recently added the entire report from Satterthwaite's groundbreaking Piedras Negras expeditions in the 1930s. It is a gold mine. Satterthwaite summarized the Usu's navigability with 'It is apparently never practicable from a point a little below Porvenir ... to an impassable rapid just above a point called San Jose'. This is exaclty what we found by going down the river and mapping the rapids and determining their difficulty. It is later sources that have gotten fuzzy, probably because they didn't have to move big stela offsite by the easiest route. One of the editors of the PN reports is some fellow named Charles.


That would be one of our other pals, Charles Golden.

FAMSI - Research Department - Piedras Negras Archaeology, 1931-1939

Posted by Dave at October 21, 2005 04:28 PM