Understanding Maya Inscriptions

A Hieroglyph Handbook

By (author) John F Harris By (author) Stephen K Stearns

Book cover: Understanding Maya Inscriptions

Extent: 260 pages

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum

Subjects: Archaeology of the Americas

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 1997)

ISBN: 9780924171413

8.46 x 10.98 inches

Price: $39.95

In stock

The second edition includes updated versions of three publications on Maya hieroglyphs. Serving as a self-teaching tool, it introduces analysis methods, calendrics, orthography, syllabary, syntax, new glyph readings, and interpretations for both beginners and scholars.


This second edition includes revised and updated versions of three earlier publications: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook; New and Recent Maya Hieroglyph Readings; and A Resource Bibliography for the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs and New Maya Hieroglyph Readings. This volume is designed to function as a self-teaching tool to help the neophyte, and yet be of value to scholars. It introduces the latest methods of analysis, illustrates techniques for computing Maya calendrics, uses the currently accepted orthography, provides syllabary and syntax, suggests new glyph readings, and presents various interpretations.

  • By (author) John F Harris
  • By (author) Stephen K Stearns