Episode 164 - Thanksglyphing
We’re shaking things up this year, and instead of doing a ThanksViking episode, we’re peeking into the world of Maya and Aztec art and writing. The Maya wrote using a system of around 800 glyphs--the Aztecs used as many as 2,000. We won’t get to ALL of these, but we’ll talk about how these writing systems developed, how they were used, and the role they played in the lives of the Aztec and Maya people.
Glyphs at Teotihuacan
Beyond public view, scholars unravel mystery of writing in ancient Mexican city (Reuters)
How Aztec Writing Works (in great detail)
Aztec Writing: How does it really work? (Nawatl Scholar)
The Nahuatl language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl
Boone, Elizabeth H. "Central Mexican Pictorials." In Davíd Carrasco (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. : Oxford University Press, 2001.ISBN 9780195188431
Suárez, Jorge A. (1983). The Mesoamerian Indian Languages. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22834-3. OCLC 8034800.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mesoamerican-indian-languages/915F2D1A630E2037B38000DA1D0026C3
Kettunen, Harri; Helmke, Christophe (2014). Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs (PDF) (in English, Spanish, French, Polish, Danish, Slovak, and Italian). The European Association of Mayanists and Comenius University in Bratislava.
https://www.mesoweb.com/resources/handbook/IMH2020.pdf
Maya writing
Civilization.ca - Mystery of the Maya - Writing and hieroglyphics (Canadian History Museum)
Early Maya Writing at San Bartolo, Guatemala by William A. Saturno, David Stuart, Boris Beltrán
http://www.sanbartolo.org/science.pdf
Conservation and Outreach at San Bartolo
News - Conservation and Outreach at San Bartolo, Guatemala
Cracking the Maya Code (PBS/NOVA)
NOVA | Cracking the Maya Code | Time Line of Decipherment (non-Flash)
Image: A page full of Maya script and illustrations from the Dresden Codex