Professor honored for research
By Shanti Sosienski
Erncfa-d Contfitxito'
When a University professor began his rescan ti
on early Maya art hiter ture. he didn't realize he
was undertaking a thirty-two year ( ommitment
He also didn't expect an award from the Semi
nar for Pre-Hispani< An hitw ture Hie award has
never been given to an American i itizen
Tile University of Mexico in Mexico tits
(UNAM) recently paid homage to '-t year-old
George Andrews for Ins research His work
helped lav the foundation for Maya Architecture
studies. Andrews’s 5,000 page databank is i or
rent I v being used at UNAM, where Andrews was
a guest lecturer in December.
Andrews said lie is honored by the apprvt ia
lion he tias received
"Mexicans, if you don't already know, tend to
use a more formal language than we would and so
all of this is |iist a more extravagant wav of pay ing
respect to what they call jomades a lifetime
< ommitment." Andrews said
Andrews, who has been a professor at the Uni
versity for 45 years, estimates tfi.it he and his
wife, who has been his "committed assistant,
have worked a total of seven solid years on the re
search over the last 32 years.
Tile data hank, in1 explained, consists of thou
sands of mi'tu ulouslv recorded dix uments in an
tirva called the Puui region, which spans across
the lower region of Mexit o. (.ii.ilein.il.i. Honduras
■and Belize
Andrews Inn ante interested in Maya an Inlet
tore after he visited a site iti JUTifi After returning
to the IS. he began looking for researi h about
the ruins he had seen However, he found there
was very limited information available
It was then that he dot (tied to liegm his projei t
of recording information .iIhuiI the lower Mayan
region
Mv itlea was to \isit all of the lower region
Mnva areas and retort) everything I could, An
drews saitl ' That turned out to lie a very substan
tial project because iht* area is approximately the
sire of (tregon
Thirty tvso years and many trips south later,
Andrews has nearly completed the extensive ri
se,irt h He said he hopes to l»- able to publish his
findings.
Andrews said that publishing a report of this
si/e will require a substantial subsidy However,
he is confident that it will Im- published upon
completion.
Andrews said he looks toward to finishing the
researi h w Im h will i ap a lifelong i ommitment to
aiding an hitei tural studies
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