She married the architect David Schele in 1968, and started teaching Studio Art at the University of South Alabama, remaining there till 1980, by which time she was Professor. With an increasing interest in literature, she spent another four years in Cincinnati's graduate program and obtained her master's degree in Art in 1968. Her mother Ruby Richmond was active in historic preservation at Historic Rock Castle in the 1980s.īorn in Nashville, Tennessee, Linda Schele began taking commercial art courses at the University of Cincinnati in 1960 and graduated in Education and Art in 1964. She was from Hendersonville, TN, a northern suburb of Nashville. In 1978, she founded the annual Maya Meetings at The University of Texas at Austin. She produced a massive volume of drawings of stelae and inscriptions, which, following her wishes, are free for use to scholars. She played an invaluable role in the decipherment of much of the Maya hieroglyphs. Linda Schele (Octo– April 18, 1998) was an American Mesoamerican archaeologist who was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography.
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