Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history : twenty-four papers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 (Editor), Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : B. Ethridge--Books, 1975.
Series:Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 28.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mexican chronology, with special reference to the Zapotec calendar; Ancinet Mexican feather ornaments; Antiquities of Guatemala; Alexander von Humboldt's picture manuscripts in the Royal Library at Berlin; Bat god of the Maya race; Wall paintings of Mitla; Significance of the Maya calendar for historic chronology; Temple pyramid of Tepoztlan; Venus period in the Borgian codex group / Eduard Seler
  • Aids to the deciphering of the Maya mnauscripts; Maya chronology; Time periods of the Mayas; Maya hieroglyphs; Central American calendar; Pleiades; Central American tonalamatl; Recent Maya investigations; Inscription of the Cross of Palenque; Day gods of the Mayas; From the Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque; Three inscriptions of Palenque / E. Forstemann
  • Comparative studies in the field of Maya antiquities / Paul Schellhas
  • Independent states of Yucatan / Carl Sapper
  • Two vases from Chama / E.P. Dieseldorff, Eduard Seler, and E. Forstemann