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The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs - The Classic Period Inscriptions

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Informationen zum Autor Martha J. Macri is Professor Emerita of Native American Studies and Research Professor in Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. She is a co-principal investigator for the Maya Hieroglyphic Database project funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Klappentext Volume 247 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series 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, often 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 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 based on the latest Mesoamerican scholarship. An essential resource for all students of Maya texts, the New Catalog is also 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 sign, and related lexical entries from dictionaries of Maya languages, all of which were compiled through the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project. This first volume of the New Catalog focuses on texts from the Classic Period (approximately 150-900 C.E.), which have been found on carved stone monuments, stucco wall panels, wooden lintels, carved and painted pottery, murals, 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. Martha J. Macri is the first Rumsey Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies and Director of the Native American Language Center at the University of California, Davis. Matthew G. Looper, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico, and Research Associate at the San Diego Museum of Man, is a specialist in ancient Mesoamerican art and writing....

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Authors Matthew G Looper, Matthew G. Looper, Martha J. Macri, Martha J./ Looper Macri, Prof Martha J Macri, MACRI MARTHA J LOOPER MATTHEW
Publisher University Of Oklahoma Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 04.02.2013
 
EAN 9780806143712
ISBN 978-0-8061-4371-2
No. of pages 394
Dimensions 214 mm x 280 mm x 19 mm
Series Civilization of the American I
Civilization of the American I
Civilization of the American Indian
The Civilization of the American Indian Series
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book

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