Yaxnohcah was a major city of the ancient Maya world, especially during the Preclassic
period (1000 BCE–200 CE). Data from excavations provide important insights into the …

Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary
study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum …

For millennia, healing and psychoactive plants have been part of the medicinal and
ceremonial fabric of elaborate rituals and everyday religious practices throughout …

The untold story of how paper revolutionized art making during the Renaissance, exploring
how it shaped broader concepts of authorship, memory, and the transmission of ideas over …

The Codex Cospi is a pictorial manuscript pertaining to the Borgia Group, probably
proceeding from the Puebla-Tlaxcala region of Central Mexico (Boone 2007: 211–230); it is …

A ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FORMATION OF MAYA STATES By
ASHLEY E. SHARPE A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SC Page 1 A …

Following a whirlwind of linguistic decipherment from the 1980s to 2000s, Maya epigraphy
has collectively shifted focus toward the hieroglyphic script's social, political, and cultural …

A single word, tz'ib, described the acts of painting and writing among the ancient Maya of
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize. Achieved by the means of a brush dipped in ink …

One of the greatest achievements of the Ancient Maya was a logo-syllabic writing system.
The Maya left many glyphic inscriptions carved, incised or painted on different media …

“The contributors present cutting-edge research using materials sciences to deepen our
understanding of cultural practices associated with painting various types of skin, including …