Chapter 9: Something That Nobody Had Done
Author interviews and correspondence with Bruce Heinicke, 2012, 2013.
Author interview with Mabel Heinicke, 2013.
Author interview with Ramesh Shrestha, 2013.
Author interview with William Carter, 2013.
Author interviews with Michael Sartori, 2012, 2013.
Author interviews with Steve Elkins, 2012–2016.
Author interview with President Porfirio Lobo and Minister áfrico Madrid, 2013.
Chapter 10: The Most Dangerous Place on the Planet
Author interviews with Bill Benenson, 2012, 2013, 2016.
Author interviews with Juan Carlos Fernández, 2012, 2013, 2016.
Author interview with Tom Weinberg, 2016.
Author interviews and correspondence with Bruce Heinicke, 2012, 2013.
Chapter 11: Uncharted Territory
Author interviews with Chuck Gross, 2012, 2013.
Author interviews with Juan Carlos Fernández, 2012, 2015.
Author interview with Ramesh Shrestha, 2013.
Author interview with William Carter, 2013.
Author interviews with Michael Sartori, 2012, 2013.
Ramesh L. Shrestha and William E. Carter, “In Search of the ‘Lost City’ by Airborne Laser Swath Mapping in Honduras, Final Report.” Houston: GSE Research Center, University of Houston, July 18, 2012. (Unpublished report.)
Chapter 12: No Coincidences
Author interview with áfrico Madrid, 2013.
“The Government of Honduras and UTL Scientific, LLC Announce Completion of First-Ever LiDAR Imaging Survey of La Mosquitia Region of Honduras.” Press release, UTL Scientific, May 15, 2012.
“UH Research Team Uses Airborne LiDAR to Unveil Possible Honduran Archaeological Ruins.” Press release, University of Houston, June 5, 2012.
Author interview with Rosemary Joyce, 2012.
“Mythical Ciudad Blanca,” May 20, 2012. Retrieved from hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com. One of the unnamed authors of this blog post is Rosemary Joyce.
Rosemary Joyce, “Good Science, Big Hype, Bad Archaeology,” June 7, 2012. Retrieved from the Berkeley Blog, blogs.berkeley.edu.
Author interviews with Chris Fisher, 2013, 2015, 2016.
Author interview with Alicia González, 2013.
Chapter 19: Controversy
Interview with Trond Larsen, 2016.
Letter from Harrison Ford to President Hernández, April 22, 2016.
“Letter from International Scholars: Archaeological Finds in Honduras.” Posted March 6, 2015. Retrieved from realhonduranarchaeology.wordpress.com.
“Who Signed the Letter from International Scholars?” Retrieved from realhonduranarchaeology.wordpress.com.
The list of signatories is: Christopher Begley, PhD, Transylvania University; Eva Martinez, PhD, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras; Rosemary Joyce, PhD, University of California–Berkeley; John Hoopes, PhD, University of Kansas; Warwick Bray, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Archaeology, University College London; Mark Bonta, PhD, Pennsylvania State University; Julia Hendon, PhD, Gettysburg College; Pastor Gomez, PhD, Honduran archaeologist and historian; Alexander Geurds, PhD, University of Leiden and University of Colorado–Boulder; Carmen Julia Fajardo, Licda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras; Gloria Lara Pinto, PhD, Universidad Nacional autónoma de honduras; Jorge G. Marcos, PhD, Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos y Antropológicos, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador; Geoff McCafferty, PhD, University of Calgary; Adam Benfer, MA, University of Calgary, PhD candidate; Ricardo Agurcia, MA, Asociación Copán; Karen Holmberg, PhD, New York University; Roberto Herrera, MA, Hunter College, City University of New York, PhD candidate, University of New Mexico; Christopher Fung, PhD, University of Massachusetts–Boston; Brent Metz, PhD, University of Kansas; Jeb Card, PhD, Miami University; Ronald Webb, PhD, Temple University; Karen O’Day, PhD, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire; Antoinette Egitto, PhD, Haskell Indian Nations University; Grant Berning, BA, University of Kansas, MA candidate; Roos Vlaskamp, MA, Leiden University, PhD candidate; Silvia Gonzalez, MA, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.
Charles C. Poling, “A Lost City Found?” American Archaeology, Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer 2015. (Some of the quoted passages came from correspondence with Poling and the editors of American Archaeology that were not published in the final article.)
Becca Clemens, “Transy Professor Gets Grant to Search for ‘Lost City’ in Honduras.” Lexington Herald Leader, July 5, 2011. Retrieved from www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article44114496.html.
Chris Kenning, “Kentucky Professor a Real-Life Indiana Jones.” Louisville Courier-Journal, June 10, 2016.
Sarah Larimer, “The Very Real Search for an Ancient City that Probably Doesn’t Exist.” Washington Post, January 11, 2016.
Chris Begley, “The Pech and Archaeology in the Mosquitia.” Posted March 15, 2015. Retrieved from realhonduranarchaeology.wordpress.com.
Alan Yuhas, “Archaeologists Condemn National Geographic over Claims of Honduran ‘Lost Cities.’” Guardian, March 11, 2015.
“Media FAQ: Under the LiDAR Expedition.” February 2015. Retrieved from resilientworld.com.
Author interviews with Virgilio Paredes, 2015, 2016.
Chapter 20: The Cave of the Glowing Skulls
Timothy Berg, “Digging 3,000 Years into the Past.” Retrieved from old.planeta.com.
Author interview with James Brady, 2015.
James E. Brady, George Hasemann, and John H. Fogarty, “Buried Secrets, Luminous Find.” Americas, Vol. 47, No. 4, July–August 1955.
John Noble Wilford, “Age of Burials In Honduras Stuns Scholars.” New York Times, January 26, 1995.
Joel Skidmore, “Copan’s Founder.” Retrieved from mesoweb.com.
William L. Fash, Scribes, Warriors and Kings: The City of Copán and the Ancient Maya. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, and Robert J. Sharer, eds., Understanding Early Classic Copan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004.
B. L. Turner and Jeremy A. Sabloff, “Classic Period Collapse of the Central Maya Lowlands: Insights about Human–Environment Relationships for Sustainability.” PNAS, Vol. 109, No. 35, August 2012. Retrieved from pnas.org/content/109/35/13908.
Marilyn A. Masson, “Maya Collapse Cycles,” PNAS, Vol. 109, No. 45, November 2012. Retrieved from pnas.org/content/109/45/18237.
Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, second edition. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Zach Zorich, “The Man under the Jaguar Mountain.” Archaeology, Vol. 62, No. 5, September/October 2009.
David Stuart, “The Arrival of Strangers.” Extract of a paper presented at Princeton University, October 1996, revised February 1998. Retrieved from mesoweb.com.
Fray Diego Durán, Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar, translated and edited by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.