Dr. Stephen Houston Presentation - Recovering a Lost World - 10/28/19
On Monday, October 28 at 4 pm in the Hinckley Center assembly hall on BYU Campus, Dr. Stephen Houston, the Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University, gave the inaugural John L. Sorenson Lecture: “Recovering a Lost World: The LiDAR Revolution and Ancient Maya Warfare.”
Dr. Houston, one of the leading Mayanists in the world today, shared the results of his first full field season working at La Cuernavilla, a Mayan fortress in northern Guatemala discovered by the LiDAR survey published last year.
The lecture was co-sponsored by Book of Mormon Central and the Department of Anthropology at BYU, and was held in honor of John L. Sorenson, a pioneering Book of Mormon scholar and founder of the anthropology department at BYU, who is among the most influential Latter-day Saint anthropologists alive today.
More information: https://bookofmormoncentral.org/events/inaugural-john-l-sorenson-lecture-stephen-d-housten
Dr. Houston, one of the leading Mayanists in the world today, shared the results of his first full field season working at La Cuernavilla, a Mayan fortress in northern Guatemala discovered by the LiDAR survey published last year.
The lecture was co-sponsored by Book of Mormon Central and the Department of Anthropology at BYU, and was held in honor of John L. Sorenson, a pioneering Book of Mormon scholar and founder of the anthropology department at BYU, who is among the most influential Latter-day Saint anthropologists alive today.
More information: https://bookofmormoncentral.org/events/inaugural-john-l-sorenson-lecture-stephen-d-housten
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