Name

Sven Gronemeyer

Born

1978: Lüdenscheid, North-Rhine Westfalia, Germany

School Education

1997: A-level at the Anne-Frank-Gymnasium in Halver, North-Rhine Westfalia, Germany

University Education

1998: Enrollment at the University of Bonn for the winter semester 1998/99 with ethnology and pre-columbian studies as major subject and prehistoric archaeology and egyptology as minor subjects
2004: Graduation as Magister Artium (MA) of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn
2010: PhD candidature at La Trobe University, Melbourne in the Archaeology Programme

Main Focus

Classic Maya culture under special emphasis to epigraphy and iconography as well as Mayan languages, especially Classic Mayan

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Academic Affiliations

• La Trobe University: PhD candidate
• Wayeb - European Association of Mayanists: Administrator, Webmaster, Wayeb Notes Board, Workshop Tutor
• Red Europea de Estudios Amerindios: Co-Founder
• University of Bonn - INAH: Proyecto Arqueológico Xkipché 2002
• Vanderbilt University - IDAEH: Proyecto Arqueológico Tamarindito 2010-2012

Awards and Fellowships

• Australian Postgraduate Award: 2011-2014
• La Trobe International Postgraduate Research Scholarship: 2011-2014
• La Trobe Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Grant: 2011-2014

Publications

PND: 138228450

Gronemeyer, Sven
2003	Beobachtungen zur possessiven Morphologie von Glyphe F. Wayeb Notes 1.
2003	Bloodletting and Vision Quest among the Ancient Maya: A Medical and Iconographic Reevaluation. Human Mosaic 34 (1-2): 5-14.
2004	A Preliminary Ruling Sequence of Cobá, Quintana Roo. Wayeb Notes 14.
2004	Tortuguero, Tabasco, Mexiko: Geschichte einer klassischen Maya-Stadt, dargestellt an ihren Inschriften. Munich: GRIN Verlag.
2006	Glyphs G and F: Identified as Aspects of the Maize God. Wayeb Notes 22.
2006	The Maya Site of Tortuguero, Tabasco, Mexico. Its History and Inscriptions (Acta Mesoamericana, 17). Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.
2010	A Painted Ceramic Vessel from San Miguel Tayasal, El Petén, Guatemala. Mexicon XXXII(6): 145-147.
2011	A Preliminary Report on the Corpus of Tamarindito, Guatemala. Mexicon XXXIII(3): 61-65.
2011	Evoking the Dualism of Sign Classes: A Critique on the Existence of Morphosyllabic Signs in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. Indiana 28: 315-337.
2012	Statements of Identity: Emblem Glyphs in the Nexus of Political Relations. In: Proceedings of the 14th European Maya Conference: Maya Political Relations and Strategies [Contributions in New World Archaeology, 4], edited by Jarosław Źrałka, Wiesław Koszkul and Beata Golińska: 13-40. Cracow: Polska Akademia Umiejętności and Uniwersytet Jagielloński.
2013	The Monuments and Inscriptions of Tamarindito, Petén, Guatemala (Acta Mesoamericana, 25). Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.
forthc.	El fin, no cerca está: el calendario maya y la terminación del 13o bak’tun según la perspectiva de Tortuguero, Tabasco. To be published in: Los mayas y las concepciones del tiempo. Memorias de la VIIa Mesa Redonda de Palenque, 2011. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia.
forthc.	E pluribus unum: Embracing Vernacular Influences in a Classic Mayan Scribal Tradition. To be published in: Maya Culture: Identity, Language and History; A Celebration of the Life and Work of Pierre Robert Colas [Acta Mesoamericana], edited by Frauke Sachse and Christophe Helmke. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.
forthc.	Die abgesagte Apokalypse: Der Blick der vorspanischen Maya auf das Ende 13. Bak'tun und das autochtone Konzept von Prophetie. To be published in: Die globalisierte Apokalypse, edited by Mechthild Albert, Monika Wehrheim, Karoline Noack and Antje Gunsenheimer. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
forthc.	The Linguistics of Toponymy in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. To be published in: Places of Power and Memory in Mesoamerica's Past and Present: How Toponyms, Landscapes and Boundaries Shape History and Remembrance, edited by Daniel Graña-Behrens. Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut.
Gronemeyer, Sven & Markus Eberl
2012	Recent Archaeological and Epigraphic Investigations in Tamarindito, Petén. In: Proceedings of the 1st Cracow Maya Conference: Archaeology and Epigraphy of the Eastern Central Maya Lowlands [Contributions in New World Archaeology, 3], edited by Christophe Helmke, Jarosław Źrałka and Monika Banach: 65-89. Cracow: Polska Akademia Umiejętności and Uniwersytet Jagielloński.
Gronemeyer, Sven & Barbara MacLeod
2010	What Could Happen in 2012: A Re-Analysis of the 13-Bak'tun Prophecy on Tortuguero Monument 6. Wayeb Notes 34.
Benavides Castillo, Antonio & Sven Gronemeyer
2005	A Ballgame Stone Ring Fragment from Edzna, Campeche. Mexicon XXVII(6): 107-108.
Eberl, Markus, Claudia Vela González & Sven Gronemeyer
2011	Investigaciones recientes del proyecto Tamarindito: la temporada 2010. In: XXIV Simposio de investigaciones arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2010, edited by Bárbara Arroyo, Lorena Paiz Aragón, Adriana Linares Palma and Ana Lucia Arroyave: 237-246. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Asociación Tikal.
Eberl, Markus, Claudia Vela González, Juan Manuel Palomo, Sven Gronemeyer
2010	Informe anual. Proyecto arqueológico Tamarindito, segunda temporada 2010. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Dirección General del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes.
Eberl, Markus, Claudia Vela González, Laura Fergusson, Byron Hernández, Sarah Levithol, Sven Gronemeyer
2011	Informe anual. Proyecto arqueológico Tamarindito, tercera temporada 2010. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Dirección General del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes.
Eberl, Markus, Claudia Vela González, Sarah Levithol, Sven Gronemeyer, Andrea Díaz & José Aguilar
2012	Informe anual. Proyecto arqueológico Tamarindito, cuarta temporada 2012. Guatemala City: Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Dirección General del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes.

Conference Presentations

Gronemeyer, Sven
2003	Glyphen G und F: Eine Reinterpretation als Aspekte des Maisgottes. VI. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Berlin, 31.1.-2.2.2003.
2009	Phonologie der klassischen Maya-Schriftsprache anhand epigraphischer Belege. XII. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Bonn, 30.1.-1.2.2009.
2009	Statements of Identity: Emblem Glyphs in the Nexus of Political Relations. 14th European Maya Conference "Maya Political Relations and Strategies", Kraków, 9.11.-14.11.2009.
2010	Die Emblem-Glyphen: Politische (Selbst-)Darstellung der Klassischen Maya. Symposium "8 Hirsch To Go: Junge Forschung zu Mesoamerika in Hamburg", Hamburg, 16.4.-18.4.2010.
2011	Recent Archaeological and Epigraphic Investigations in Tamarindito, El Peten. 1st Cracow Maya Conference "Archaeology and Epigraphy of the Eastern Central Maya Lowlands", Kraków, 25.2.-27.2.2011.
2011	El fin, no cerca está: el calendario maya y la terminación del 13o bak'tun según la perspectiva de Tortuguero, Tabasco. VII Mesa Redonda de Palenque "Los mayas y las concepciones del tiempo", Palenque, 27.11.-2.12.2011.
2012	And no, the end isn't near, and so we don't face the final curtain: Tortuguero, Mexiko und das Ende des 13. Bak'tun im Maya-Kalender. XV. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Bonn, 10.2.-12.2.2012.
2012	Class Struggle: Towards a Better Understanding of Maya Writing by Comparative Graphematics. 17th European Maya Conference "On Methods: How We Know what We Think We Know about the Maya", Helsinki, 9.12.-15.12.2012.
Gronemeyer, Sven and Elisabeth Wagner
2003	Internetowy kurs epigrafiki Majów: Perspectives of Internet-based Classes Demonstrated by Means of a Course in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing. Symposium "Estado actual y perspectivas de los estudios precolombinos y amerindios en Europa", Warsaw, 4.12.-6.12.2003.
2004	Internetowy kurs epigrafiki Majów: Perspektiven des e-learning am Beispiel eines Kurses zur Maya-Epigraphik. VII. Mesoamerikanisten-Tagung, Hamburg, 30.1.-1.2.2004.
Eberl, Markus, Claudia Vela González and Sven Gronemeyer
2010	Investigaciones recientes del Proyecto Arqueológico Tamarindito: temporada 2010. XXIV Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, 19.7.-23.7.2010.

Classes

• Uniwersytet Warszawski: Internet Course "Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphic Writing", with Elisabeth Wagner (2003)
• Uniwersytet Warszawski: Internet Course "The Heritage of a Dynasty: The Reign of Bird Jaguar IV in Yaxchilán" (2004)

Workshops

European Maya Conference

• 8th EMC, Madrid (2003): Beginners "Late Classic Yaxchilan under the Reign of Shield Jaguar II and Bird Jaguar IV"
• 9th EMC, Bonn (2004): Intermediate "The History of Tortuguero and its Sociopolitical Setting in the Tabasco Region"
• 10th EMC, Leiden (2005): Beginners Workshop (with Pierre Robert Colas, Geneviève Le Fort and Christian Prager)
• 11th EMC, Malmö (2006): Beginners Workshop (with Harri Kettunen, Christian Prager and Alexandre Safronov)
• 13th EMC, Paris (2008): Beginners Workshop (with Guido Krempel, Geneviève Le Fort, Christian Prager and Alexandre Safronov)
• 14th EMC, Kraków (2009): Beginners Workshop (with Christophe Helmke, Harri Kettunen, Guido Krempel, Sebastian Matteo and Boguchwała Tuszyńska)
• 16th EMC, Copenhagen (2011): Intermediate "From Ochk'in Kalomte to Dzulob: Mesoamerica in the Maya World" (with Dmitri Beliaev)
• 17th EMC, Helsinki (2012): Beginners Workshop (with Ramzy Barrois, Christophe Helmke and Rosa Worm Danbo)

Other Conferences

• 1st Cracow Maya Conference (2011): Beginners "Revisting the Usumacinta Sites: A Fresh Look at the Inscriptions of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan" (with Guido Krempel and Sebastian Matteo)
• 2nd Cracow Maya Conference (2012): Beginners "Revisting the Usumacinta Sites: A Fresh Look at the Inscriptions of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan" (with Sebastian Matteo and Boguchwała Tuszyńska)