Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing

A classic in the literature on the decipherment of Mayan writing, "Phoneticism" grew out of the famous Albany conference - a gathering of the leading Mayanists who were working within the modern, linguistically-informed paradigm for the analysis of Mayan hieroglyphic text. This volume contains nine seminal articles and appendixes. Many of the phonetic readings on which current epigraphic work depends are worked out and presented here. Several papers focus on carefully exemplify rigorous decipherment methodology; others provide primary data on the ancient language forms that lie behind the glyphic representations.