Multispectral imaging of an Early Classic Maya codex fragment from Uaxactun, Guatemala

被引：3
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作者：
Carter, Nicholas P. [1 ]
Dobereiner, Jeffrey [2 ]
机构：
[1] Harvard Univ, David Rockefeller Ctr Latin Amer Studies, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Dept Anthropol, 11 Divin Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
来源：
ANTIQUITY | 2016年 / 90卷 / 351期
关键词：
Guatemala; Early Classic period; Maya; multispectral imaging; codex; XULTUN; BOOK;
D O I：
10.15184/aqy.2016.90f
中图分类号：
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号：
030303 ;
摘要：
Multispectral visual analysis has revealed new information from scarce fragments of a pre-Columbian document excavated in 1932 from a burial at Uaxactun, in Guatemala. The plaster coating from decomposed bark-paper pages of an Early Classic (c. AD 400-600) Maya codex bear figural painting and possibly writing. Direct investigation of these thin flakes of painted stucco identified two distinct layers of plaster painted with different designs, indicating that the pages had been resurfaced and repainted in antiquity. Such erasure and re-inscription has not previously been attested for earlyMaya manuscripts, and it sheds light on Early Classic Maya scribal practices.
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页码：711 / 725
页数：15
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