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Maya Hieroglyphic Writing - Foundation Level
Lesson 1: Introduction to Decipherment
Introduction to Mesoamerica and the Maya World (4:00)
Assigned Reading
Decipherment through the ages (19:18)
Course Outline (1:41)
Exercise
Lesson 2: Sign Types - Numbers and Calendrics
Maya Numbers (6:38)
Assigned Reading
Counting in the Dresden Codex (5:38)
Tzolk'in (5:52)
Haab (6:25)
Calendar Round and Long Count (10:39)
Exercise
Exercise Answer Key
Lesson 3: Sign Types - Syllables and Logograms
Cultural Context (5:15)
Spatial arrangement of glyphs within blocks (9:01)
The Maya Syllabary (2:11)
Combining syllables and logograms (5:50)
Exercise
Exercise Answer Key
Assigned Reading
Lesson 4: Graphic Origins and Physical Attributes of Signs
Pars pro toto and merography (7:32)
Detail-based variations and allographs (4:10)
Graphic origins of signs (3:21)
Palaeography (8:48)
Exercise
Exercise Answer Key
Assigned Reading
Lesson 5: Conflation, superimposition, and infixation
Complementation (4:53)
Conflation, superimposition, infixation (7:43)
Scribal flexibility (10:16)
Exercise
Exercise Answer Key
Assigned Reading
Lesson 6: Reading Maya Captions
Maya Murals (22:44)
Maya Ceramics (9:26)
Answers (6:00)
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