caa a22 4500 386317941 CHVBK 20180307111613.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00073622 doi S0003598X00073622 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00073622 Culbert T. Patrick Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Political history and the decipherment of Maya glyphs [Elektronische Daten] [T. Patrick Culbert] The remarkable progress since 1960 in the decipherment of Maya inscriptions has created unique opportunities for interpretation. The Classic period (AD 250-900) Maya, who for half a century had been interpreted almost entirely from archaeological evidence, have suddenly become an historical civilization. Archaeological data and models can now be combined with and cross-checked against the Maya's own dynastic records. New data have accumulated so rapidly, however, that communication between specialists in different realms of Maya studies has not kept pace. To stimulate communication, the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, sponsored a seminar in October 1986 that brought together a group of epigraphers, art historians and archaeologists to share their data, expertise and divergent approaches. This article will summarize the parts of the seminar that bear upon political history. My debt to the ten colleagues† who participated in the seminar is very great. The experience was genuinely collegial and whatever contribution our efforts make to Maya studies will be the result of the interplay of ideas and viewpoints that we established during our week together. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/234(1988-03), 135-152 0003-598X 62:234<135 1988 62 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00073622 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00073622 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Culbert T. Patrick Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 62/234(1988-03), 135-152 0003-598X 62:234<135 1988 62 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge