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A Sign Catalog: Glyphs in Selected Text-Like Layouts at Teotihuacan
Joanne Michel Guerrero
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This volume closely examines and catalogs a limited set of glyphic elements found at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan in Mexico. This study serves as an initial investigation to verify whether these glyphs may be part of a writing system in use at the site. The author looks at two specific sources of glyphs and glyph compounds at Teotihuacan that appear to be the largest sets of co-occurring glyphs and contain the largest number of glyphs. One set, in particular, has not yet been studied in detail and therefore will present new information within this area of research. Furthermore, there has not been a steady or significant amount of glyphic research carried out at Teotihuacan in recent years, since Taube (2000). The investigation was structured to thoroughly analyze the data for similarities between the selected glyphic elements from Teotihuacan and the requirements for writing systems. For that reason, basic linguistic tests were conducted on the data to determine whether the glyphic elements had similarities with those requirements for Mesoamerican writing systems. This work is not a decipherment. Instead, its aim is to verify whether the glyphic elements at Teotihuacan could potentially be a writing system, catalog them in an orderly fashion, conduct a comparative analysis between them and others found within Teotihuacan and elsewhere in Mesoamerica, and conclude whether further research in the way of a complete decipherment is a possibility if future data is uncovered at the site.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Table of Contents
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Illustrations
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Historical Background
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Writing Systems
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History of Research on Teotihuacan Writing and Mesoamerican Glyph Interpretation
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The Wagner Murals
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The Language of Teotihuacan
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Decipherment
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Methodology
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Comparative Analysis
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Speech and Sound Scrolls
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Readable Glyphs
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Readable Glyphs
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Unreadable and Partially-Erodable Glyphs
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Glyph Compounds
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Boundary Markers and/or Divider Glyphs
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La Ventilla/ Mural Painting Comparative Analysis
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Mesoamerican Day Names
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The Twenty Mesoamerican Day Names from the 365-day Calendar
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Conclusions
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Bibliography
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Published: 2014
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407342788 (ebook)
- 9781407313122 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2670