The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing

Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, David Stuart (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

576 Seiten

2001
University of Oklahoma Press (Verlag)
978-0-8061-3204-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2001
Zusatzinfo	156 figures
Verlagsort	Oklahoma
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1224 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8061-3204-3 / 0806132043
ISBN-13	978-0-8061-3204-4 / 9780806132044
Zustand	Neuware