January 15, 2006
FAMSI Report - SCHERER: Tixan, SDL

Andrew Scherer and Charles Golden were among the archaeologists I spent time with in the spring of 2004, in Esmeralda and Tecolote. They continued their explorations of the Sierra del Lacandon Park in Guatemala in 2005 and will return in June of this year.

This is their 2005 report to FAMSI:

Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Andrew K. Scherer - Archaeological Reconnaissance at Tixan: Explorations in the Southern Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Petén, Guatemala

I've made Google Earth overlays of two of their maps from the report.

Sierra_del_Lacandon_Exploration.kmz

tixan_invaders.kmz

And draping 2004 AIRSAR data on the map (a large file):

Sierra_del_Lacandon_AIRSAR.kmz 36.5 mb

See also my previous post on the Usumacinta River valley and OS X Google Earth tools:
The Daily Glyph - Google Earth Community Usu tour

And the tour that includes Ron Canter's maps of of the river and Maya trails:
The Daily Glyph - Improved Google Earth Usu Map

If you don't have the Google Earth program, it is a free download (for Mac or PC) that you can find here:

Google Earth - Home

Posted by Dave at January 15, 2006 10:10 PM