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Reply to: A Phonetic Version of the Maya Glyph for North

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Clemency Chase Coggins
Clemency Chase Coggins*
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

This paper acknowledges the validity of Closs's phonetic reading of north as xaman in the Classic Mayan inscriptions, while not accepting his separation of north from up and the zenith direction.

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American Antiquity , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 401
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1988

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