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A Discussion of J. Eric Thompson's Interpretations of Chichen Itza Hieroglyphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Hermann Beyer*
Affiliation:
Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

Extract

In my Studies on the Inscriptions of Chichen Itza I gave tentative datings of a number of buildings and monuments on the basis of Tun-Ahau combinations contained in their inscriptions. The list is repeated here as Table I.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1941

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Footnotes

Presented in part to the Second International Congress of Anthropologic Sciences, Copenhagen, August 1939. (See Compte rendu, p. 286.)

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