New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Harvard University, 1971.

63 p. : il. ; 20 cm.

Foreword. -- Introduction and catalogue. -- The maya calendar system. -- Suggested further reading. -- Peabody museum numbers. --

Tomado de la introducción: "This exhibition celebrates two jubilees, and the birth of a new enterprise. For it is now close to 150 years since reports of ruined cities in the Maya area began to reach the public, illustrated with the sculpture and hieroglyphic writing found in them; it is about a century since the first steps in deciphering this writing were made; and now in a period of unprecedented activity in hieroglyphic studies, the long overdue preparation of a Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions has been initiated. During the first millennium of the Christian era, the Maya of the jungle lowlands of southern Mexico and adjacent Central America developed one of the great civilizations of the New World. This civilization drew upon a rich, older Middle American cultural heritage, and one of the features of the entire Middle American network was a concern with time-counting or calendrics. Probably first connected with farming, calendrics became much more than a farmer's guide with the Maya, who diversified and elaborated upon and integrated them into high ritual and ceremonial life. In carrying out these calendrical elaborations, the Maya employed complex mathematics, with place enumeration and a concept of, and sign for, zero."