Lunar calendars of the pre-columbian Maya /
Pre-Columbian Maya interest in the waxing and waning of the Moon is well documented in texts carved on approximately 200 monuments dating to the Classic period (AD 300-900). The lunar content of these inscriptions was first recognized by scholars during the second decade of the twentieth century, bu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
American Philosophical Society Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ;
v. 109, pt. 1. |
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| Summary: | Pre-Columbian Maya interest in the waxing and waning of the Moon is well documented in texts carved on approximately 200 monuments dating to the Classic period (AD 300-900). The lunar content of these inscriptions was first recognized by scholars during the second decade of the twentieth century, but it was not fully understood until the ninth decade of that century. The recent discovery of a lunar table painted on the wall of a small building at Xultun in Guatemala provides the impetus to take another look at the lunar inscriptions on Classic Maya monuments and to evaluate the degree to which the twentieth-century ideas about their structure and function conform to the information provided by the lunar table at Xultun. It also permits us to take a fresh look at how Maya understanding of lunar motion developed through time and din space over the six centuries of the Classic period. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781606180914 1606180916 |