[1984] in peace2
10/17, 7pm: "Destroying Mayan Ruins to Generate Electricity?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (corrina@MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 15 12:12:14 2002
From: corrina@MIT.EDU
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:08:15 -0400
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The MIT Western Hemisphere Project presents ...
Mayan Ruins in Southern Mexico:
Standing in the Way of Progress?
* David Stuart,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard
7 pm, Thursday, October 17
MIT Room 4-159
The event is open to all; admission is free.
DETAILS
To meet 2% of its energy needs, the Mexican government is
planning to build a dam on the Usumacinta, the country's
biggest river. If built, the dam would displace the
indigenous descendants of the Mayans and destroy the natural
habitats of numerous rare and endangered species in the
Lacandon rain forest; it would also flood as many as
eighteen ancient Mayan sites that have barely been explored.
Twice in the last twenty years, protests from environmentalists,
academics, and grassroots human-rights advocates have halted
construction of the dam. What is at stake this time around?
We will ask David Stuart, a Mayan specialist at the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
On a recent expedition to the area, Stuart's team discovered
the oldest known Mayan mural, a 1,900-year-old depiction of
a religious ceremony involving the Maize God.
For more information about this event, please see
http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/columbus2002.shtml.
CONTACT & DIRECTIONS
E-mail: hemisphere-admin@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/
MIT Room 4-159: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/directions/
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