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

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

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"