Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America

by Reymundo Chapa, Frank Salomon, Carrie J. Brezine, et al.

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Writing and recording are key cultural activities that allow humans to communicate across time and space. Whereas Old World writing evolved into the alphabetic system that is now employed around the world, the indigenous peoples in the Americas autonomously developed alternative systems that conveyed knowledge in a tangible medium. New World systems range from the hieroglyphic script of the Maya, to the figural and iconic pictographies of the Aztecs,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0884023680

ISBN13:9780884023685

Release Date:October 2011

Publisher:Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Length:422 Pages

Weight:2.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 8.7" x 11.3"

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Foreign Language Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages History Language Arts

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