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The Problem of the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Y. V. Knorozov
Y. V. Knorozov*
Affiliation:
Institut Etnografii Akademii Nauk Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
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Up to the present time, some specialists have held to the view that on the American continent before the European colonization, there was no writing in the true sense of that word. The various systems of writing used by the Indians were regarded as pictographic or ideographic. However, it is now known with certainty that the civilized peoples of ancient America — the Maya, Zapotec, Olmec, and also the Quechua and Aymara — had hieroglyphic writing of the same type as that of the Old World, of China, Egypt, Sumeria, and so forth.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , January 1958 , pp. 284 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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