The duplication diacritic: A case study of variation and change in Mayan writing

DF Mora-Marín - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2024 - cambridge.org
This article studies the duplication diacritic of Epigraphic Mayan (ISO 639-3 emy) during the
Classic period (ad 200–900). Cataloged as grapheme 22A, it consists of two dots optionally …

Living together in Río Bec houses: Coresidence, rank, and alliance

MC Arnauld, D Michelet, P Nondédéo - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2013 - cambridge.org
In an attempt to interpret Classic Maya elite and commoner residential patterns beyond
usual assumptions about filiation, family cycle, and household economic adaptation, we …

The blind spot: where the elite and non-elite meet

MA Canuto, WL Fash Jr - Continuities and Changes in Maya …, 2004 - taylorfrancis.com
As early as 1904, Franz Boas succinctly described Anglo-American anthropology's innate
dualism:“We find in anthropology two distinct methods of research… the historical method …

The evolution of ancient Maya exchange systems: An etymological study of economic vocabulary in the Mayan language family

CS Speal - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2014 - cambridge.org
This article presents a cultural reconstruction of ancient Maya economic development
derived through etymological study of exchange-related terms in Mayan languages. It …

Graphemic Variation in Morphosyntactic Context: The Syllable u in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

ME Matsumoto - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout the long history of Classic Maya hieroglyphs, a logosyllabic writing system used
from the late first millennium BCE through the mid‐second millennium CE in southern …

The place of maize in indigenous Mesoamerican folk taxonomies

NA Hopkins - Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In Mesoamerica, the homeland of maize, the systematic investigation of native plant
categorization among the indigenous societies began less than 50 years ago, and there are …

[PDF][PDF] Análisis epigráfico y lingüístico de la escritura maya del periodo Preclásico Tardío: Implicaciones para la historia sociolingüística de la región

D Mora-Marín - XXI Simposio de Arqueología en Guatemala, 2008 - academia.edu
Abstract EPIGRAPHIC AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF MAYA WRITING FROM THE LATE
PRECLASSIC PERIOD: IMPLICATIONS FOR A SOCIOLINGUISTIC HISTORY OF THE …

Reconstruction of the Proto‐Ch'olan demonstrative pronouns, deictic enclitics, and definite articles1

DF Mora‐Marín - Transactions of the Philological Society, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reconstructs the independent pronouns of Proto‐Ch'olan (Mayan), and traces the
changes that took place in the descendant languages–Ch'ol, Chontal, Ch'olti', Ch'orti'. The …

Archaeological paleography: a proposal for tracing the role of interaction in Mayan script innovation via material remains

JD Englehardt - 2016 - torrossa.com
This research explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle–Late
Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC–AD 450) Mesoamerica. It seeks to correlate …

[PDF][PDF] De cuando se hicieron montaña los cráneos y mar la sangre

LGR Acosta - academia.edu
Aunque no existe evidencia que sustente la idea de que la guerra es omnipresente y un
componente natural de la existencia humana, la trascendencia del fenómeno la ha …