A List of Period Endings

Following up on the last post, here’s something else of possible use to intro-level students and instructors when learning about Maya glyphs and the calendar. The short pdf is a table I prepared for The Order of Days book, listing all of the main Period Ending dates from 8.13.0.0.0 to 10.4.0.0.0, basically spanning the Classic [...]

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A Day Sign List

One of the illustrations in my recent book The Order of Days gives, well, the order of days — a simple list of the twenty Maya day-signs with the Yucatec versions of their names. I thought just now that it might be useful for teaching and intro-level study to post a digital version here on [...]

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An Update on the Tonina Captives

The latest issue of Arqueologia Mexicana has an article by Juan Yadeun in which he illustrates the two recently unearthed prisoner sculptures mentioned in the previous post. The printed version of the article includes this reasonably good photograph of the more damaged of the two sculptures, which was difficult to see in the previously available images. [...]

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