Wednesday, January 23, 2019

The restoration jigsaw puzzle

Time and the elements have been rough on some of the structures at Uxmal.  Not unusual to find buildings mostly intact, but with a wall or the roof fallen in.  Archeologists are painstakingly restoring the damage.  Here is a building that gives a great example of the situation and the restoration process.


First photo: pile of rubble stacked inside a partially fallen building.  These are probably the roof and wall stones found in and around the building, collected together for safekeeping.

Second photo:  the reconstruction process.  Believe some poor graduate student is doing a jigsaw puzzle with the rubble -- trying every piece, finding the one that fits correctly, chalking a label on it for correct placement in the rebuild.  These rocks are very heavy.



1 comment:

  1. Reminds me of those young guys in The Netherlands, piecing together broken tiles gleaned from the midden/dump. ; D

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