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The Royal Headband: A Pan-Mesoamerican Hieroglyph
by David Stuart (The University of Texas at Austin) Note: This unpublished paper was written back in 2008 on honor of the late Henry B. Nicholson, the great scholar of Aztec history and culture who was...
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An Early Classic Bird Vase
by David Stuart (The University of Texas at Austin) and Peter Stuart (Hampshire College) Figure 1. Two views of bird effigy vase. From Fields and Reents-Budet (2005:209) Early Classic Maya ceramics...
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The Nomenclature of La Corona Sculpture
Right section of La Corona Panel 2. Photograph by Justin Kerr (K4677) Just posted on Mesoweb is the latest in the series of La Corona Notes produced by the La Corona Archaeological Project (PRALC)....
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Death of the Defeated
The third on the series of La Corona Notes is now posted on Mesoweb. This study focuses on one of the inscribed blocks recently unearthed at the site, bearing new historical details about the life of...
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NEW BOOK: Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity: Space and Spatial...
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity: Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History Edited by Maline D. Werness-Rude and Kaylee R. Spencer University of New Mexico Press, 2015 Maya Imagery,...
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NEW BOOK: The Maya (Ninth Edition)
The Maya (Ninth Edition) By Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston Thames & Hudson, 2015 The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient...
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“The Ancient World’s Most Massive Inscription”
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin Looking through the most recent issue of Archaeology magazine, I was fascinated to read about the 2nd-century inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda,...
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Big Writing
by Stephen Houston, Brown University The biggest text or inscription, discussed in a post by David Stuart (Most Massive Inscription), prompts another question. What is the largest writing, the most...
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Preliminary Notes on Two Recently Discovered Inscriptions from La Corona,...
by David Stuart (The University of Texas at Austin), Marcello Canuto (Tulane University), Tomás Barrientos Quezada (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala), and Maxime Lamoureax St-Hillaire (Tulane...
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An Innovative Ritual Cycle at Terminal Classic Ceibal
By Nicholas P. Carter, Harvard University The site of Ceibal, in the southwestern Department of Petén, Guatemala, is well known for the exuberantly unconventional style and content of its Terminal...
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In Memoriam: Christopher Jones
Simon Martin has penned a moving essay on the late Christopher Jones (1937-2015) and his contributions to Maya epigraphy and archaeology, posted on Mesoweb. Chris was an incredibly warm person, ever...
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New Book: Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya
Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya by Andrew K. Scherer The University of Texas Press, 2015 Through a wealth of previously unpublished primary data, Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya...
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The 2016 Maya Meetings
The 2016 Maya Meetings are coming to UT-Austin on January 12-16. It should be a fun and exciting event wit presentations on the latest developments in Maya studies, centered on various workshops and a...
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Birth of the Sun: Notes on the Ancient Maya Winter Solstice
by David Stuart, University of Texas at Austin With the recent passing of the winter solstice it seems a good time to revisit some ideas I penned in 2009, regarding a possible ancient Maya record of...
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The Woman in Wood: A Reencounter with Tikal’s Queen from Temple II
by James Doyle (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Stephen Houston (Brown University) In 2014, we investigated a long-lost fragment of a wooden lintel, probably from Tikal, that is now stored in...
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Classic Collaterals
by Stephen Houston, Brown University Among the great surprises of epigraphy was the discovery of “parentage statements” by Christopher Jones (1977). With this breakthrough, relationships of descent...
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Chili Vessels
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin A great many inscribed Maya ceramics from the Classic period were marked according to their intended contents, with glyphic terms for various types of...
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Xenophobia and Grotesque Fun
Stephen Houston, Simon Martin, and Karl Taube In the Ming dynasty of China, one document attracted much amused interest. This was the Luochung Lu (臝蟲錄), a treatise on “naked creatures” or barbarians...
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A Note on Spelling Days and Months
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin Readers of Maya Decipherment and of a great many recent articles may have noticed some inconsistency in the way I and others represent Calendar Round...
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Analyzing an Ancient Maya Codex Fragment from Uaxactun
Archaeologists seldom ever recover physical evidence of ancient Maya and Mesoamerican manuscripts. One notable exception was the discovery many decades ago of a badly fragmented codex in a tomb at...
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