Pictograph to Alphabet -- And Back
Ii, Robert M Hill![Pictograph to Alphabet -- And Back](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/458/45831940/CHSBZCOP0345831940.jpg)
The Xajil chronicle of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala is topically the most diverse, lengthy, and organizationally complex of the surviving highland-Maya historical texts that were first recorded alphabetically in the colonial period. In this monograph, the author demonstrates that much of the Chronicle was redacted from pre-conquest pictographic documents, documents that now are lost. Both the organization and topical coverage allow the auth...