Abstract Ilopango volcano (El Salvador) erupted violently during the Maya Classic Period
(250–900 CE) in a densely-populated and intensively-cultivated region of the southern …

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 …

A central concern in the study of language contact phenomena is the question of what
linguistic features are more or less likely to be borrowed, and why. Pronominal borrowing, at …

The walls of Structure J at the Zapotec centre of Monte Albán incorporate monuments,
probably carved during the Pe ceramic phase (300–100 bc), bearing distinctively formatted …

The Classic Mayan language was written for approximately 2,000 years, from 300 bce until
around 1700 ce in the Colonial period, but there is a lack of information on how to index …

The reading of the T650 glyph has been a puzzle for decades. Here, we analyze the
semantic contexts in which the glyph appears together with available phonetic evidence to …

El gobierno de K'ihnich Bahlam Chapaht corresponde a uno de los más longevos de todos
los gobernantes conocidos de Tonina. Con excepción de su nacimiento y entronización …

Dentro de la tradición plástica maya, el empleo de ciertos elementos iconográficos tiene
como objetivo la ilustración de mensajes de alto contenido simbólico, ya sea eventos y …

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 …

One of the most important and long-running debates in Maya studies, and the subject of
polarized positions, is Classic Maya political organization. But over recent years a …