Supplement To The Handbook Of Middle American Indians, Volume 5: Epigraphy [Paperback]

In 1981, under the editorship of Victoria Bricker, UT Press began to issue supplemental volumes to the classic sixteen-volume workHandbook of Middle American Indians. These supplements are intended to update scholarship in various areas and to cover topics of current interest that may not have been included in the originalHandbook.

This volume is designed to recognize the important role that epigraphy has come to play in Middle American scholarship and to document significant achievements in three areas: dynastic history, phonetic decipherment, and calendrics. The book covers four of the major pre-Columbian scripts in the region (Zapotec, Mixtec, Aztec, and Maya) and one that is relatively unknown (Tlapanec).

• 1. Introduction (Victoria R. Bricker)
• 2. The Zapotec Writing System (Gordon Whittaker)
• 3. Mixtec Pictography: Conventions and Contents (Maarten Jansen)
• 4. The Annals of the Tlapanecs (Constanza Vega Sosa)
• 5. Aztec Writing (Hanns J. Prem)
• 6. Noun and Verb Morphology in the Maya Script (Victoria R. Bricker)
• 7. A New Look at the Dynastic History of Palenque (Linda Schele)
• 8. Classic Maya History and Politics at Dos Pilas, Guatemala (Stephen D. Houston)
• 9. The Copan Dynasty (Berthold Riese)
• 10. The Middle American Calendar Round (Munro S. Edmonson)
• Bibliography
• Index