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Thought, you got an early Christmas present? This time, our subscribers got 2 mexicon issues in the mail.
Our deep apologies again for the delay of mexicon August 2023.
But it was worth the wait, containing:

Rod Heitzmann and Ulrich Wölfel:
A stela with painted iconography from Quen Santo Cave II

Nicholas A. Hopkins:
Language Isolates and Trade Routes in Pre-Columbian America

A note regarding the achievements of our editor Karl-Herbert Mayer:

Note that Karl's thousands of images and photographs have been digitized and currently being published by his friends and colleagues from the Project Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan at Bonn. Karl's documentation is an important cultural and historical resource being made available by his Bonn colleagues for open access and unrestricted use. His images are of immense value to researchers, historians, students, and enthusiasts of Maya culture and history.

access Karl's archive here:

https://classicmayan.kor.de.dariah.eu/ #/entities/1043

or full archive

https://classicmayan.kor.de.dariah.eu/ #/new-media

ConedaKOR

An information from the publisher to our subscribers:
Unfortunately, the release of Volume 45, No. 4 (August 2023) is delayed by technical problems. You will receive this issue together with the forthcoming Volume 45, No. 5 (October 2023). Please accept my apologies for the delay and thanks for your patience.

Mitteilung des Verlegers an unsere Abonnenten:
Leider verspätet sich der Versand von Volumen 45, Nr. 4 (August 2023) wegen technischer Probleme. Sie erhalten die Ausgabe zusammen mit dem Oktoberheft (Volumen 45, Nr. 5). Danke für Ihre Geduld und bitte entschuldigen Sie die Verspätung.

Summer has come to an end, but it's never too late to grab our mexicon summer issue June 2023

with contributions by:
- Sarah Kurnick, David Rogoff, Iliana Ancona Aragón, and Nicholas Puente: Variable Precipitation and Maya Persistence at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, mexicon

- Scott E. Simmons, W. James Stemp, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, and Elizabeth Graham: Recent pXRF Analysis of Obsidian from Marco Gonzalez, Ambergris Caye, Belize

Looking for summer readings for your next trip? We recommend packing some mexicon issues, for example our April 2023 issues.

With contributions by:

Jason Yaeger, Christophe Helmke, M. Kathryn Brown, Marc Zender, Bernadette Cap and Carolyn Freiwald:
A Shell Gorget from Feature 384-2 at Buenavista del Cayo, Belize

Helen R. Haines, Alec McLellan, and Kerry L. Sagebiel
There is Post-Classic here!:
A Reinvestigation of Coco Chan, a Curious Site in the Ka’kabish-Lamanai Corridor, Belize

Sorry, our mexicon Februar 2023 issue is a bit crinkly. Why? Cause we read it a lot 😉

Contributions:

Holley Moyes, Asia Alsgaard, Erin E. Ray, and Laura Kosakowsky:
Caves, Wind Jewels, and Ancestors: What's a Nice Wind Jewel Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Philippe Nondédéo, Julien Hiquet, Hemmamuthé Goudiaby, Julie Patrois, and Nikolai Grube:
Naachtun Altar 8: New Data from an Early Classic Monument

New issue coming up soon...

But before, let's have another (surely not last) look at mexicons December 2022 issue.

Contributions:
Zachary Hruby, David Stuart, Daniel Vallejo-Cáliz, and Scott Hutson:
An Incised Ceramic Vessel Excavated at Ucí, Yucatán, Mexico

Stephan Merk, Nikolai Grube and Thomas Huacuja Gallmannn:
New Dates from the Maya Puuc site of Yaxche Ku and the Discovery of a Unique Stone Lintel

We hope, you had a good start into 2023!
We begin the new year with a special delivery for our subscribers:
mexicon October AND December 2022
Best wishes from the mexicon team!

Time to read!
Grab mexicons newest issue, August 2022, relax in a hammock or cozy up on a sofa with a cup of tea.

Contributions:
Garrett Cook: A template for Mesoamerican pilgrimage

Nicholas Dunning, Guido Krempel, and Stephan Merk: Yaxche Xlabpak and its stelae

Wanna know more about this tombstone?
Grab mexicons newest issue, June 2022.

Cover
Ángel A. Sánchez Gamboa, Guido Krempel and Alejandro Sheseña:
New Discoveries from the Southern Periphery of Tonina's Acropolis

With a contribution by
Zoë J. Rawski: A Late Preclassic Cache with Greenstone Heads
from Early Xunantunich, Belize

Wanna know more about the figure on this Maya vessel?
Find out in mexicon April 2022

Contents:
Research Notes
- Marie Botzet: A Recent Visit to El Chorro, Petén, Guatemala

- Ángel Sánchez Gamboa, Alejandro Sheseña, and Guido Krempel:
Two Sculpture Fragments with Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Santoton, Chiapas

Contributions:
- Sebastián Matteo and Céline Gillot:
Sihyaj K'ahk": A New Portrait on a Late Classic Maya Vase from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

- Gaia Carosi: An Archaeological Survey at the Ex-Hacienda Xoclán