An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs
by Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Bureau of American Ethnology : Bulletins (57)
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Best introduction to the topic - easily accessible to beginners. Extremely full in interpretation; very thorough in exposition of variants and unusual features, with reproductions of many inscriptions unavailable elsewhere. Material from Old and New Empires. Includes an Introduction by noted Mayologist J. Eric S. Thompson.Tags
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- Canonical title
- An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs
- Original publication date
- 1915
- First words
- Broadly speaking, the Maya were a lowland people, inhabiting the Atlantic coast plains of southern Mexico and northern Central America.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)To the student who wishes to specialize in this field of the glyphic writing the writer recommends the treatises of Prof. Ernst Förstemann as the most valuable contribution to this subject.
- Original language
- English
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 497.4 — Language Other languages North American native languages Penutian, Mayan, , Mixe-Zoque, Uto-Aztecan, Kiowa-Tanoan languages
- LCC
- F1435.3 .P6 .M67 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Central America Mayas
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