Ian Graham

This article is about the British Mayanist researcher and epigrapher. For other uses, see Ian Graham (disambiguation).

Ian James Alastair Graham (born 12 November 1923) is a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Among his related works is a biography of an early predecessor, the 19th-century British Maya explorer Alfred Maudslay.

Early life and studies

Ian Graham was born 1923 in Campsea Ashe, a village in the East Anglia county of Suffolk, England. He went to Trinity College, Oxford in 1942 as an undergraduate in physics, but his studies were put on hold the following year when he left to enlist in the Royal Navy in which he served for the remainder of World War II. After the war his studies were resumed at Trinity College, Dublin from where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1951.

Published works

• Graham, Ian, Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 2003.
• Graham, Ian, The Road to Ruins. University of New Mexico Press 2010.

References

Dorfman, John; and Andrew L. Slayman (Summer 1997). "Maverick Mayanist" (online abstract). Archaeology (New York: Archaeological Institute of America) 50 (5): 50–60. ISSN 0003-8113. OCLC 86456041. http://www.archaeology.org/9709/abstracts/graham.html. 

Museo Popol Vuh (n.d.). "Sr. Ian Graham: Orden del Pop 2001". Orden del Pop. Guatemala City: Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín. http://www.popolvuh.ufm.edu/eng/popgrahan.htm. Retrieved 14 December 2009. 

External links

• Works by or about Ian Graham in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

• Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

• Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volumes 1–9. Published by the Peabody Museum Press and distributed by Harvard University Press