Great news was announced today that Steve Houston, contributor to this blog (and a fine scholar besides), has received a MacArthur Award. Huge congratulations, Steve, for such a well-deserved honor, and being such a really smart person. Three cheers!
An official announcement from the MacArthur Foundation came Tuesday morning. And a story from the Brown University [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Stephen Houston Receives MacArthur Award
Posted in History of Research, News, Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unusual Signs 1: A Possible Co Syllable
Posted in Linguistics on September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Over the coming weeks and months I will be offering musings on certain rare or usual Maya hieroglyphic signs, some of which haven’t been catalogued or ever discussed in the literature.
The first is what I take to be a syllabic element, appearing in contexts that strongly point to a Co value. Many have probably taken [...]
