With the great expansion of interest in American arecheologyduring the last few years there has grown to be acorresponding need and demand for primary textbooks,archeological primers so to speak, whichwill enable thegeneral reader, without previous knowledge of the science,to understand its several branches. With this end is view,the author has prepared this volume. In the limited spaceavailable it would have been impossible to present adetailed picture of the Maya civilization, nor indeed isthis essential to the purpose of the book. It has beenthought advisable, however, to precede the generaldiscussion of the hieroglyphs with a brief review of thehabitat, history, customs, government, and religion of theancient Maya, so that the reader may gather a general ideaof the remarkable people whose writing and calendar he isabout to study (adapted from the Preface).(Re-edition, originally published 1915 in Washington).Contents: I. The Maya (habitat, History), II The MayaHieroglyphic writing, III. How the Maya reckoned time (Thetonalamatl or 260 day period, the haab or year of 365 days,the Calendar Round, Date Glyphs), IV. Maya arithmetics (Barand dot numerals, several methods of numeration, the 5 stepsof solving Maya numerals), V.The Inscriptions, VI. TheCodices, Tables and Illustrations.
- ISBN: 978-3-8628-8192-5
- Editorial: LINCOM EUROPA GmbH
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 284
- Fecha Publicación: 31/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés