What does it take to make such a breakthrough, with a script of such complexity as the Maya? We now have some answers, as Michael Coe demonstrates here. This is the story of how the Mayan glyphs found in the ancient ruins of Copan and. Knorosov'¬ a Soviet citizen totally isolated behind the Iron Curtain'¬ and not of the leading Maya scholar of his day, Sir Eric Thompson. /rebates/2f97801402348172fBreaking-Maya-Code-Coe-Michael-01402348102fplp&. Breaking the Maya Code (English, Paperback, Coe Michael D.). There is now compelling documentary and historical evidence bearing on the question of why and how the '¬Sbreaking of the Maya code'¬ was the achievement of Yuri V. It includes iconographic and epigraphic investigations into how the Classic Maya perceived and recorded the human senses, a previously unknown realm of ancient Maya thought and perception. The inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time. His books include The Maya, Mexico, Breaking the Maya Code, Angkor and the Khmer Civilization, and Reading the Maya Glyphs. The third edition of this classic book takes up the thorny question of when and where the Maya script first appeared in the archaeological record, and describes efforts to decipher its meaning on the extremely early murals of San Bartolo. Read Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University. In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North America, Mexico, Guatemala, and western Europe but also in Russia and the countries of eastern Europe.
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