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23 Cards in this Set
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Diego de Landa
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Francisan friar, burned 27 heiroglyphic codices, wrote Relacion de las cosas de yucatan, account of matters in yucatan, a defense against charges against brutality, returns to Yucatan as Bishop
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Bartoleme de las Casas
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witnesses genocide of native americans, returns to spain to plead cause of native americans, called father of anti imperialism and anti racism. wrote apologetica historia de las indias and historia de las indies. convinces pope paul they have souls, goes to indies published destruction of indies without permission of inquisition, recalled for court
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Edward King
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antiquarian, wrote antiquities of mexico, wanted to prove they were decendants of the lost tribe of israel
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Jean Frederic Maximilien de Waldeck
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Went by the title of Count, claimed he was with napoleon in france but no documentation, studies hieroglyphics, concluded that the egyptians hindus or chaldeans had founded mayan civilization, legendary to his death, died at 109 from heartattack seeing babe
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Augustus Le Plongeon
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Educated in Paros, went to gold rush but became surveyor, then photographer, then went to peru and photographed peruvian ruins. theorized the mayans were the source of all world civiliaztions, american archeologist rejected this and he because hostile thinking there was a conspiracy theory against him
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John Lloyd Stephens, Frederick Catherwood
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first serious scholars in the yucatan, traveled to copan and uxmal, recorded ruins with daguerreotype photography, catherwood made extremely accurate drawings, departed from speculation, knew it was the same mayan people that were still living there, made accurate observations
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stephens and catherwood cntd
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1841 published Incidents of travel in central america, chiapas and yucatan, In 1843 they published Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, opened the field of mayan archaeology, new scholars are attracted, waldeck and Plongeons days are numbered
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Teobert Maler
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Studied architecture, records yucatan sites with photography, has money to fund, but it gets expensive so he gets funded by harvards peabody institute to publish folios
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Alfred Percival Maudslay
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Educated at Cambridge, father of scientific archaeology in mesoamerica, stays 13 years photographs ruins, begins to make plaster casts for people to study abroad. published biologica centrali americana,4 vol series, includes site plans and descriptions, drawings by annie hunter, first women to work in area
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adela breton
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also worked with maudslay, invited to make watercolor drawings of ruins, hunter and breton were pioneers in the field
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Edward Herbert Thompson
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american anthropologist, originally believed in atlantis, but later rejected it, appointed to head consul in mexico, used position to investigate ruins, purchased chichen itza, dredged the cenote using mayan laborers
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Abbe Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
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found de landas book in archives at the royal academy of history in madrid, did ethnohistory, laid ground work for future scholars
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epigrapher
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someone who studies hieroglyphics
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tzolkin
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260 day ritual calendar, 13 months of 20 days
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Haab
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365 day solar caldendar, 18 months of 20 days, on extra ritual month of 5 days
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tzolkin and haab
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take 52 years to realign
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long count
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way to keep track of linear time, day is kin, month is uinal, year is tun, 20 yrs is katun, 20 katuns is a baktun
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Sylvanus J Morley- 1st gen
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thought writing system was ideographic or pictrographic, no phonetic componet, each glyph represented whole ideas or concepts
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Thompson -1st gen
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protege of morley, believed they dealt with grand issues of time, spiritually, and the universe, didnt document affairs with morals. he delayed that deciphering of mayan heiroglyphs bc of his insistence
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heinrich berlin- 2nd gen
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identified emblem glyphs, consisted of main sign and two smaller signs, smaller signs nicknames ich and bin, I AM
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Tatiana Proskouriakoff
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like Berlin she noted re-occuring glyphs dates on stelae, generally arranged in groups on plazas, dates generally cover an average lifetime, toothache sign, and upended frog, ate with the frog always occurs before toothachce. upended frog is the birth date, toothache is death
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Yuri Valentinovitch Knorosov
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USSR during cold war, stared with egyptian hieroglyphics, groundbreaking work
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Schele
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at the time (1970s) only 30 percent translated, schele and green host round table at palenque, first time mayan scholars from all over the world meet up, except knorosov, by 1983 95% of glyphs could be read, theyre all about poeple
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