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Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript

By Gabrielle Vail (Editor), Anthony Aveni (Editor)
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By Gabrielle Vail (Editor), Anthony Aveni (Editor)
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This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the Petén region of Guatemala...

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