▪ Abstract Accessing ancient meaning and sound from graphic notations is an immense
challenge to archaeologists, whether with respect to marked objects, petrographs, or phonic …

By any measure, the creation and development of writing was a cybernetic advance with far-
reaching consequences. It allowed writers to communicate with readers who were distant in …

Identifies evidence-backed and easy-to-implement strategies for encouraging young people
to read, and helps you to position your library as an indispensable resource for supporting …

A decade of Maya glyphic decipherment creates many opportunities for historical, linguistic,
cultural, and archaeological interpretation. New evidence points to improvements in …

In this essay, I explain how certain Mesoamerican practices came to be thought of as"
hieroglyphic"" writing." I argue that an awareness of this history can offer new perspectives …

This paper examines how maize and blood were central elements in ancient Zapotec
religious practices and how they were conceptually linked. I analyze the iconography of …

This essay is about an object that no longer exists. The Lienzo de Tlaxcala was a painted
cotton cloth, 2 metres wide and 5 metres long. Created in the Central Mexican town of …

3. Alexander von Humboldt was the first to describe this fear of idolatry, writing in 1803:“The
professors of this University, priests from the order of St. Dominic, did not want to expose this …

The present essay approaches ancient and early colonial pictography in the light of the
living religious practices of the Mazatec people of northern Oaxaca. These two distant …

Recent investigation among the Ayöök (Mixe) people of Oaxaca showed that the on-going
use of a 260-day calendar complements the divinatory technique of casting maize seeds …