Breaking the Maya Code Third Edition

Name: Breaking the Maya Code Third Edition
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ISBN: 9780500289556

ISBN-10: 0500289557

ISBN-13: 9780500289556

Edition: 3rd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Michael D. Coe

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In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North America, Mexico, Guatemala, and western Europe but also in Russia and the countries of eastern Europe.The third edition of this classic book takes up the thorny question of when and where the Maya script first appeared in the archaeological record, and describes efforts to decipher its meaning on the extremely early murals of San Bartolo. It includes iconographic and epigraphic investigations into how the Classic Maya perceived and recorded the human senses, a…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Brian K. Blount is Associate Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary.



Preface


Prologue



The Word Made Visible



Lords of the Forest



A Jungle Civilization Rediscovered



Forefathers: The Dawn of Decipherment



The Age of Thompson



A New Wind from the East



The Age of Proskouriakoff: The Maya Enter History



Pakal's People



Down into Xibalbï¿½



A New Dawn



A Look Backward, A View Forward


Envoi



Proskouriakoffs "Suggested Order of Discussion"



The Maya Syllabic Chart


Notes


Glossary


Sources of Illustrations


Further Reading and Bibliography


Index