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Our current assignments include documentation of Mayan peoples in Mesoamerica. Our work in Mexico - from November 2007 - is previewed below. Our documentation of the Tzotzil people of Mexico is here. Our documentation of the Tzeltal people of Mexico is here. Our documentation of Lacandon people in Mexico is previewed here.

As the sun sets in the Chiapas highlands to the west of San Cristóbal de las Casas...
... it casts a glow and a shadow of the Mayan cross onto the town's cathederal.
Women from surrounding indigenous villages use this photo-opportunity to sell handicrafts to tourists...
... and encourage their children to do the same.
But it is perhaps most famous in recent history for being the launching point, on January 1, 1994, of the Zapatista resistance movement. Since then Chiapas has been filled with military bases to fight against the Zapatistas.
Two thousand years earlier nearby Palenque was becoming a thriving Mayan city.
The ancient Maya built aqueducts, like this one at Palenque, for irrigation to support their large cities.
The site at Palenque is still being excavated by archeologists and is revealing insights into ancient Mayan culture.
It was from observation towers like this one that Mayan astronomers formed their understanding of the cosmos hundreds of years before European astronomers made the same discoveries.