The Codex October 2012 – February 2013

THE CODEX TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 22 Issues 1 – 2

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR 1

ANNOUNCEMENTS 2

MEET THE CURATORS: ROBERT J. SHARER, CURATOR-IN-CHARGE, AMERICAN SECTION by Deborah I. Olszewski 3

IN MEMORIUM: ROBERT J. SHARER 1940 – 2012 by Simon Martin and Ricardo Agurcia F. 5

HOW BOB SHARER LAUNCHED MY TEACHING CAREER by John Harris 8

SITE-SEEING: NOTES FROM THE FIELD: TIKAL REMEMBERED, RETURN TO THE FORGOTTEN CITY by Olga Stavrakis 9

GOSSIP COLUMN by Lady Sharp Tongue 26

NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE OJO DE AGUA MONOLITH OF XOCHIPALA, GUERRERO, MEXICO by Arnaud F. Lambert 27

GRAMMAR IN THE SCRIPT: PLAYING WITH SHARKS: MAYA NOBILITY AND THE SHARK NAME, WHO ARE THEY REALLY? PART 1 by Hutch Kinsman 36

ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY REVISITED: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ENIGMA AND THE ORIGINS OF MAYA WRITING by Robert J. Sharer 48