Review Excerpt:

"No scholar is more beloved by Mayanists than Tatiana Proskouriakoff, the Russian-born archaeologist and artist whose reconstriction drawings of sites such as Piedras Negras and Copan are world famous...A new biobraphy of this amazing scholar...is sure to fascinate readers...Filled with a large supporting cast of colorful characters and absorbing details of early archaeological expeditions to the Maya world, Interpreting the Ancient Maya wins over the reader with a compelling portrait of one of archaeology's most important early personalities."