Lecture: The Mysteries of the Ancient Maya Civilization and the Apogee of Art in the Americas

Presented by Dr. Arthur Demarest, Vanderbilt University Ingram Professor, Anthropology; director, Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology (VIMA); general editor, VIMA Monographs in Archaeology Dr. Arthur Demarest, an anthropologist and archaeologist, is considered one of the world’s leading experts on Olmec and Maya cultures that are represented in the exhibition Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Demarest’s work is reshaping ideas about the ancient, advanced,