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“The pictographs have such a deliberate structure ... who is decapitated in some Mesoamerican mythic traditions, and symbolizes the west and the winter solstice.(Jean Clottes, Carolyn ...
Paper facsimile of the Codex Nuttall, which Zelia Nuttall had published along with an introduction describing the collection of indigenous Mesoamerican pictographs and their meaning.
Pioneers of crafting rubber, Mesoamerican cultures used this innovation ... and recorded historical events in pictographs. Perhaps their most famous Olmec accomplishment was the invention ...
On the outskirts of the Mexican resort town of Tulum, overlooking the Caribbean sea from a densely jungled hilltop, are the remains of a Mayan city known as Zama, or “Dawn.” The ruins look ...
Move over, Indiana Jones. In her undergraduate work authenticating the Mesoamerican greenstone collection at BYU’s Museum of Peoples and Cultures, anthropology student Chloe Burkey developed an eagle ...