Breaking the Maya Code (Third Edition)

Michael D. Coe

ISBN 10: 0500289557 / ISBN 13: 9780500289556

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2012

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The third edition of this classic book takes up the thorny question of when and where the Maya script first appeared in the archaeological record, and describes efforts to decipher its meaning on the extremely early murals of San Bartolo. It includes iconographic and epigraphic investigations into how the Classic Maya perceived and recorded the human senses, a previously unknown realm of ancient Maya thought and perception.

There is now compelling documentary and historical evidence bearing on the question of why and how the "breaking of the Maya code" was the achievement of Yuri V. Knorosov--a Soviet citizen totally isolated behind the Iron Curtain--and not of the leading Maya scholar of his day, Sir Eric Thompson. What does it take to make such a breakthrough, with a script of such complexity as the Maya? We now have some answers, as Michael Coe demonstrates here.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University. His books include The Maya, Mexico, Breaking the Maya Code, Angkor and the Khmer Civilization, and Reading the Maya Glyphs. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Titel: Breaking the Maya Code (Third Edition)
Verlag: Thames & Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very_good
Auflage: 3. Auflage