Mesoamerican Writing
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Intervals of 260 days are recorded by architectural orientations at a number of Maya sites, a pattern that may have developed early at sites such as Nakbe. The 260-day calendar, emphasizing sets of 13 and 20 days, dates back to the Middle... more
Comprehensive study of the fourth known Pre-Columbian Maya codex, the "Códice Maya de México", formerly known as the "Grolier Codex", the oldest book on paper from the ancient Americas.
One of four known ancient Maya books, the Grolier Codex depicts different manifestations of Venus; the column of glyphs on the left of each panel records days in a 104-year Venus almanac. These plaster-coated bark-paper pages,... more
Los murales de Teotihuacan constituyen un lenguaje plástico cuyo contenido genera multiples lecturas, muchas de ellas aún no descifradas para nosotros. La pintura de la ciudad describe acontecimientos, relatos, pasajes históricos o hechos... more
The Grolier Codex is discussed in the context of the archaeoastronomy of the ancient Americas on pages 98-99 of the March 1990 National Geographic Magazine article "America's Ancient Skywatchers" by John B. Carlson. One of four known... more
Les Mercredis de Juillet : « Écritures anciennes et symboles graphiques, de la Préhistoire à nos jours ». Société des Amis des Archives / Archives de la Martinique. Fort-de-France. 2018.
The Grolier Codex (Codice Maya de Mexico, CMM) is discussed in the context of the archaeoastronomy of the ancient Americas on pages 98-99 of the March 1990 National Geographic Magazine article "America's Ancient Skywatchers" by John B.... more
The epigraphic analysis of Stela 18, Yaxchilán, with a translation into ancient Mayan, provides a glimp of the cultural perspective that is forgotten when inscriptions are translated with a Western cultural perspective.
This handbook is an educational resource designed for the Department of Education of the National Gallery of Victoria. It intends to facilitate the teaching and understanding of the NGV collection of Mesoamerican art. It comprises the... more
PhD dissertation (Leiden University): interpretive study of the precolonial Mixtec Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus 1 (Codex Yuta Tnoho), dealing with the origin of Mixtec dynasties. Apéndices: (1) Fray Gergorio García’s text on the origin... more
In this article, see pages 164, 166-168 for Stuart's discussion of the Grolier Codex. It is highly significant that the Mexican State of Chiapas and the Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas chose to include the Grolier Codex as an authentic... more
"Selected proceedings of the “First International Conference on Ethnoastronomy: Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World”held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 5-9 September 1983." Available on... more
Underlying Maya cosmology, history and religion are several key mythological narratives explaining the origins of the world, and providing sacred charters for civilized/moral behavior. Key elements from these narratives—including shared... more
Writing! Few human inventions are as pervasive and central to the modern world. Each and every day, we read thousands of words—whether in traditional formats like books, magazines, or newspapers, or on the increasingly common computers,... more
In 'Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art', Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological... more
El siguiente articulo analiza iconográficamente el contenido del Lienzo de Analco, un manuscrito histórico-cartográfico producido por los aliados indígenas de los conquistadores de la sierra Norte de Oaxaca. Narra la historia... more
Ancient people used architectural space to track the movement of heavenly astronomical bodies and, in the process, create hierophanies. In particular, where and when is visual information dramatized by the hierophantic play of light and... more
La región chatina del estado de Oaxaca ha sido poco estudiada arqueológicamente. En este trabajo se presenta un corpus de 35 monumentos grabados como objeto principal de investigación. Los resultados son preliminares.
Codex Bodley (Codex Ñuu Tnoo - Ndisi Nuu) is a precolonial Mexican pictorial manuscript, stemming from the Mixtec region (Ñuu Dzaui). It tells the history and genealogy of the rulers of the Mixtec city-states Tilantongo (Ñuu Tnoo) and... more
""Талах В. Н., Куприенко С. А. (редакторы). Америка первоначальная. Источники по истории майя, науа (астеков) и инков / Ред. В. Н. Талах, С. А. Куприенко. — Киев : Видавець Купрієнко С. А., 2013. — 370 с. : ил. ISBN... more
The work is one of the final drafts of a study about the Nahua system of writing employed in the Codex Xolotl and published as Chapter 13 the homage to Karen Dakin. Chapter 13 compares the Nahuatl of the folio that Thouvenot classified as... more
More than four decades ago H.B. Nicholson compared the so-called Palace Stone from Xochicalco to a page in a Mesoamerican codex. Showing numerous calendrical dates and toponymic signs connected by a path marked by footprints the monument... more