Maya Initiative (1999

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Maya Initiative (1999-2009)

Project Publications

Descamps, Françoise and Carolina Castellanos. "Préparation d'un plan de gestion et de sa mise en oeuvre: le cas de Joya de Cerén, El Salvador." In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture, Bamako, Mali, edited by Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute (forthcoming).

	Castellanos, Carolina, Françoise Descamps. Sitios Arqueológicos en el Área Maya: Un Reto para la Conservación. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2009. Full-length presentations in their original Spanish-language form and summary of discussions from panel presented at the XXII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas in Guatemala City. (92pp., 6.1MB).

	Castellanos, Carolina, Françoise Descamps. Conservation Management Planning: Putting theory into practice. The case of Joya de Cerén, El Salvador. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2009. Downloadable in two separate sections.

	Castellanos, Carolina, Françoise Descamps, and María Isaura Aráuz. *Executive Summary for the Management Plan of Joya de Cerén, El Salvador.* Los Angeles: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte de El Salvador, and the Getty Conservation Institute, 2007. (25pp., 1.4MB)

	Castellanos, Carolina, Françoise Descamps, and María Isaura Aráuz. *Résume Exécutif du Plan de Gestion de Joya de Cerén, Le Salvador.* Los Angeles: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte de El Salvador, and the Getty Conservation Institute, 2007. (French version of the above) (25pp., 1.4MB)

	Castellanos, Carolina, Françoise Descamps, and María Isaura Aráuz. *Resumen Ejecutivo del Plan de Manejo Joya de Cerén, El Salvador.* Los Angeles: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte de El Salvador, and the Getty Conservation Institute, 2002. (Spanish version of the above) (25pp., 1.4MB)

	The Getty Conservation Institute and Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia. The Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copán, Honduras: Study Results and Conservation Proposals. The Getty Conservation Institute and Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, 2006. Downloadable in seven separate sections.

	The Getty Conservation Institute and Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia. La Escalinata Jeroglífica de Copán, Honduras: Resultados de los Estudios y Propuestas de Conservación. The Getty Conservation Institute and Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, 2006. (Spanish version of the above) (212pp., 5.2MB)

	Castellanos, Carolina, Françoise Descamps, and María Isaura Aráuz, eds., *Management Plan for Joya de Cerén.* Los Angeles: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte de El Salvador, and the Getty Conservation Institute, 2002. This plan, in Spanish only, has introductions in Spanish, English and French and can be downloaded in PDF format in 7 separate sections.

Articles in the GCI newsletter

Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copan (Fall 2007)
Copán (Fall 2003)
Copán (Summer 2003)
Joya de Cerén Management Plan (Fall 2002)
Copán (Spring 2002)
New Campaign at Copán (Summer 2001)
El Salvador Earthquake Relief Project (Summer 2001)
Joya de Cerén: Conservation and Management Planning for an Earthen Archaeological Site (Spring 2001)
Meeting at Copán (Spring 2001)
Documentation of Hieroglyph Stairway in Copán (Fall 2000)
Maya Initiative (Summer 1999)

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Non-Getty Publications/Sites

Boardman, Clive, and Christopher Gray. "An Examination of Heritage Survey in the International Arena: The Survey of the Hieroglyphic Stairway in Copán, Honduras." CIPA 2001 International Symposium. Postdam University, Germany, September 18–21, 2001.
Carballo, Jennifer, Françoise Descamps, and Carolina Castellanos. The Management Plan for Joya de Cerén, El Salvador: A Tool for Coordinating the Various Activities Undertaken at an Archaeological Site. Poster presented at the Society of American Archeology, April 2005.
Castellanos, Carolina, and Françoise Descamps. "Joya de Cerén, El Salvador: site interpretation in participatory management planning." Museum International 223 (September 2004): 94-101.
Descamps, Françoise. "The Management of Archaeological Sites: An Integration of Activities." Paper presented at the International Conference on Heritage, New Technologies and Local Development, The Ename Center, Ghent, Belgium, September 11-13, 2002.
Descamps, Françoise, and Carolina Castellanos. "Joya de Cerén: application d'une méthode de planification basée sur la reconnaissance des valeurs du site et la participation." Paper presented at Conservation in Changing Societies Heritage and Development, Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, May 22-25, 2006.

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