The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest
running and most contested of these, and the source of deeply polarized interpretations, has …

Recent years have seen rapid advancement in our understanding of the phonology and
grammar of Classic Ch'olan and the distribution of Lowland Mayan languages in the Classic …

Understanding the ways in which human communities define themselves in relation to
landscapes has been one of the crucial research questions in anthropology. The present …

Mayan historical linguistic research has progressed at a healthy pace since the 1970s. The
recent decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphic writing and the publication, in the last …

In this handbook we will follow the new alphabets and new orthography when dealing with
Maya names and terminology, but we shall continue using the old orthography when …

Aborda el desarrollo histórico de la gran ciudad a partir de los trazos de su propia
historiografía, registrada en las múltiples inscripciones del sitio, y también de sus imágenes …

Excavations at La Sufricaya, a minor ritual group in the outskirts of the Lowland Maya city of
Holmul, have documented two mural paintings inside an elite building of Early Classic date …

El análisis de los contextos de uso y sustitución de la escritura maya permite identificar el
valor de lectura de un signo maya como la sílaba tz'o. Esta propuesta proporciona la …

The Classic Maya, like many peoples in the ancient world, paid keen attention to male
youths as a key age/gender grade, and, in the Maya example, to those who would inherit a …

2 variable elements (Figures 1 and 2). Although he didn't attempt either a reading or a
translation, Hellmuth supposed that the compound might refer to the “final score” of the …