1: The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume One: The Classic Period Inscriptions (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

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For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, steadily by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume I: The Classic Period Inscriptions is a guide to all of the known hieroglyphic symbols of the Classic Maya script. In the New Catalog Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper have produced a valuable research tool in accordance with the recent Mesoamerican scholarship.

An essential resource for all students of Maya texts, the New Catalog may be accessible to nonspecialists with an interest in Mesoamerican cultures. Macri and Looper present the combined knowledge of the most reliable scholars in Maya epigraphy. They provide currently accepted syllabic and logographic values, a history of references to published discussions of each and every sign, and related lexical entries from dictionaries of Maya languages, all of that have been compiled through the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project.

This first volume of the New Catalog specializes in texts from the Classic Period (approximately 150–900 C.E.), which were found on carved stone monuments, stucco wall panels, wooden lintels, carved and painted pottery, work of art, and small objects of jadeite, shell, bone, and wood. The forthcoming second volume will describe the hieroglyphs of the three surviving Maya codices that date from later periods.

 

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