Maya Heiroglyphs

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Stelae

Freestanding carved stone monuments

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Codices

folding books on bark paper

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Diego de Landa

  1. Tried to compile what he thought was an alphabet after burning all the Maya books.

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Stephens and Catherwood

1840s. Rediscover Maya civilization leading to scholarly interest

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Early 20th century thought on glyphs

Thought non historical, religious, symbols of concepts not phonetic. Framed Maya as ahistorical.

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Yuri Knorozov

Soviet scholar in 1950s realized Landa’s alphabet was a syllabary

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Heinrich Berlin

  1. Discovered emblem glyphs, like crest of particular kingdom

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

  1. Tabulated dates from stelae, discovered they recorded dynastic histories.

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Joyce Marcus

  1. Breakthroughs in emblem glyphs showed political models with view on cardinal directions: Copan, Tikal, Calakmul, and Palenque most important

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Secondary centers linked to primary centers

through royal marriage alliances of royal women from primary centers

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David Stuart

  1. Discovered graphic variation where Maya words written different ways bc different forms of glyphs representing the same sound.