The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing

Mazariegos Oswaldo Chinchilla Stuart David

ISBN 10: 0806132043 / ISBN 13: 9780806132044

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001

Beschreibung

Print on Demand pp. 576 156 Figures, Illus.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3546358

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing
• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0806132043
• ISBN-13: 9780806132044
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing is an important story of intellectual discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to the interpreting of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of cuneiform. Using classic articles taken from publications unavailable to most readers, accounts by Spaniards who witnessed the writing of the glyphs and research by twentieth-century scholars--from Tatiana Proskouriakoff to Michael Coe--this book provides a history of the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs. Introductory essays offer the historical context and describe the personalities and theories of the many authors who contributed to the understanding of these ancient glyphs.

More than two hundred line drawings illustrate the text and serve as an introduction to decipherment. This landmark work in Maya studies is the first book to examine the centuries of thought behind the decoding of Maya hieroglyphs.