Pictograph to Alphabet -- And Back: Reconstructing the Pictographic Origins of the Xajil Chronicle Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol.

by Robert M. Hill II

The Xajil chronicle of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala is topically the most diverse, lengthy, and organizationally complex of the surviving highland-Maya historical texts that were first recorded alphabetically in the colonial period. In this monograph, the author demonstrates that much of the Chronicle was redacted from pre-conquest pictographic documents, documents that now are lost. Both the organization and topical coverage allow the author to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160618024X
• ISBN13: 9781606180242
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 124 Pages