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Systems of Hieroglyphic Writing in Middle America and Methods of Deciphering Them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Eric S. Thompson
J. Eric S. Thompson*
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Harvard, Ashdon Saffron Walden, England
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Recent disagreement on the nature of Maya hieroglyphic writing calls for a reappraisal of the historical sources, and an examination of alternative methods of decipherment. Unfortunately, no one has both a thorough grasp of the subject and an unbiased attitude.

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American Antiquity , Volume 24 , Issue 4Part1 , April 1959 , pp. 349 - 364
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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