| Traditional
High Cultures |
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| Oral and Written Traditions and
Rock Art as the Histories of Both Ancient and Living Peoples, Especially
of the Americas before the Arrival of Europeans |
| You navigate through our site by clicking on any of the yellow buttons above, or to return here, click on the "Home" bar at the bottom of the pages. The area you are in will be highlighted by changing its button to orange. Below is a brief description of each area |
| Mayan | Books and study tools. The field of Mayan studies has exploded in new directions since Mayan hieroglyphic writing is now to a considerable extent readable. Progress continues to be rapid. |
| Mixtec | Books and study tools. The Mixtec codices are the most obviously historical of Mexico. They span at least from the late 800's CE to the 1700's, with largely continuous descent of ruling lineages at named places whose geographical locations are in large degree known. Many were preserved by communities, or in court records as evidence of rights to land. They manifest what is clearly written language, readable in any Mixtec language since these have the same word order. Mixtec histories contain dramatic stories of conquest and intrigue. |
| Borgia Group | Books and study tools. The “Borgia” group of codices have traditionally been treated as religious documents, contrasting them with the more historical Mixtec codices, despite many common ways of using visual symbols. But the boundaries are becoming a bit less clear, as we learn more, and find actual dates in the Borgia group. Parallels with the Mayan codices are also increasingly recognized. Mesoamerican cultures talked with each other. |
| Central Mexican | Books and study tools. Other codices, lienzos, and mapas from Mesoamerica which do not fit into the three areas above. Teotihuacan, La Mojarra, and other writing systems. (Recent work is establishing that the Nahua, Mexica and others, also had a syllabary used in writing place names and much else, even if no long texts are known.) |
| North America and other traditions | Books and study tools. Map of North American Indian Languages; Annals of the Pima; More materials coming on rock art, on relations between the Southwest and the Moundbuilders and Mesoamerica; and on migration histories of major peoples of North America. |
| “Ways of Remembering History” at the Fifth WAC | Sessions under this theme for the 5th World Archaeological Congress, 21-26 June 2003, Wash. D.C. Session titles and abstracts are here, and some papers will be made available on this web site in advance of the meetings. |
| Ways to Contribute | Opportunities to contribute to living communities and to the support and recovery of Traditional High Cultures. Currently features the Ch'orti' of Jocotán, Guat. Their language is closest to that of the classic Maya inscriptions. |
| Ethics | Creatively opening doors to mutual support and co-operation, exploring ways to include all peoples as part of “us” not the other “them”, where possible solving thorny problems, being tactful and gracious, anything we can do... Help is of course always needed with new ideas for preventing and resolving unnecessary conflicts. |
| LingFonts | Ecological Linguistics also supports cultural diversity by providing fonts for Transliterations and for non-Roman alphabets of the world, including many ancient alphabets. Please click on the link to the left to see our other web site handling fonts and software keyboards. |
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