Into the minds of ancients: Advances in Maya glyph studies

Journal of World Prehistory

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-201

  Houston, S D ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classic period; Decipherment; Maya archaeology; Maya lowlands

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE;

EID: 0033693756     PISSN: 08927537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007883024875     Document Type: Article

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242. Tense and aspect in Mayan hieroglyphic script
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245. Two or three things that I know about culture
246. Identification of Maya temple buildings at Piedras Negras
247. Maya dating by hieroglyphics
248. Introduction
249. Maya practice stone-carving at Piedras Negras
250. The hauberg stela: Bloodletting and the mythos of Maya rulership
251. Commentary on site R monuments
252. The demotion of Chac-Zutz': Lineage compounds and subsidiary lords at Palenque
253. The founders of lineages at Copan and other Maya sites
254. The workshop for Maya on hieroglyphic writing
255. Some suggestions on the k'atun prophecies in the books of Chilam Balam in light of classic-period history
256. Die Entzifferung der Mayahieroglyphen ein unlosbares Problem
257. A run for their lives
258. The search for site Q
259. From sociological illiteracy to sociological imagination
260. Archaeology and history in the royal acropolis, Copan, Honduras
261. Structure and change in a Late Classic Maya domestic group at Copan, Honduras
262. Introduction
263. Vardagsliv och visdomsord: Runorna i Norden fran urtid til nutid
264. The social context of literacy in Archaic Greece and Etruria
265. Disconnection, foreign insignia, and political expansion: Teotihuacan and warrior stelae of Piedras Negras
266. The Rio Azul cacao pot: Epigraphic observations on the function of a Maya ceramic vessel
267. The decipherment of 'directional count glyphs'
268. Breaking the code: Rabbit story
269. Kings of stone: A consideration of stelae in ancient Maya ritual and representations
270. Kinship terms in Maya inscriptions
271. The texts of Temple 26: The presentation of history at a Maya dynastic shrine
272. 'The fire enters his house': Architecture and ritual in classic Maya texts
273. The 'arrival of strangers': Teotihuacan and Tollan in Classic Maya history
274. Maya Glyphic Lexicon
275. Recovering the past: Classic Maya language and Classic Maya gods
276. Quest for decipherment: A historical and biographical survey of Maya hieroglyphic investigation
277. The royal crypts of Copan
278. Old writing and new messages: The role of hieroglyphic literacy in Maya cultural activism
279. Life and death in a Maya war zone
280. Lexicostatistic classification
281. The Birth Vase: Natal imagery in ancient Maya myth and ritual. In Kerr, J. (ed.)
282. The rainmakers: The Olmec and their contribution to Mesoamerican belief and ritual
283. The jade hearth: Centrality, rulership, and the Classic Maya temple
284. Teotihuacan and the Classic Maya: Recent investigations of temple 16 at Copan, Honduras
285. Lightning celts and corn fetishes: The formative Olmece and the development of maize symbolism in Mesoamerican and the American Southwest
286. Maya astronomy: What we know and how we know it
287. Text and textile: Language and technology in the arts of the Quiche Maya
288. The Popol Vuh as a hieroglyphic book
289. Bones and epigraphy: The accurate versus the fictious?
290. The Pacific coast of Oaxaca and Guerrero: Westernmost extent of the Zapotec script
291. Nuevos monumentos grabados en Monte Alban, Oaxaca
292. From knots to narratives: Reconstructing the art of historical record keeping in the Andes from Spanish transcriptions of Inka khipus
293. A commentary on the bee almanacs in Codex Madrid
294. Arquitectura y escultura en la Plaza Sur del Grupo H, Uaxactun
295. The reigning dynasty of Uaxactun during the Early Classic
296. Interpretacion de la estela 40 de Tikal
297. The perception of history and archaeology in Latin America
298. La acropolis de Ek' Balam, el lienzo en el que plasmaron lo mejor de su arte sus antiguos pobladores
299. Textos glificos de Ek' Balam (Yucatan, Mexico): Hallazgos de las temporadas de 1996-1998
300. Langue litteraire et diglossie
301. Ancient and contemporary Maya settlement patterns: A new look from the Chiapan Highlands
302. Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya
303. Ek Balam: A new Emblem Glyph from the northeastern Yucatan
304. La estela de Tabi: Un monumento de caceria
305. The dates of the High Priest Grave ('Osario') inscription
306. The languages of the Dresden Codex: Legacy of the Classic Maya
307. Structuring the past: Temporal deixis in Classic-Mayan and Acalan-Chontal narrative
308. Narrative time in the Classic-period inscriptions
309. Native American writing systems
310. The early history of the Cherokee syllabary
311. The carved monuments of Uxbenka, Toledo District, Belize
312. Multispectral analysis of ancient Maya pigments: Implications for the Naj Tunich corpus
313. Infrared imaging of precolumbian murals at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico: An interdisciplinary perspective on ancient art
314. The House of the Bacabs: Its social context
315. Ancient Maya warfare
316. The not so peaceful civilization: A review of maya war
317. The Zapotec writing system
318. A Ch'orti morphological sketch
319. More evidence for the distributions of Ch'olan dialects in the Classic period
320. Maya archaeology
321. Scholarship and provenience in the study of artifacts
322. Archaeology and the antiquities market: The use of 'looted' data
323. Etymology of cacao and its implications for deciphering Maya glyphs
324. Jawbone glyph T590 and hand-scattering glyphs