Cracking the Maya Code – Due by the end of day, Thursday 6/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrbsz-7gns8
Watch the documentary and respond to the following in your own words
The questions are in order, you can note the answers when they come up in the film, but make sure you go back and rephrase the responses in your own words—you will not get credit for answers that are copied verbatim from the film.
1) Who was Diego de Landa? What did he do?
2) Briefly describe the history of the Dresden Codex. Why is it important, specifically for the Maya calendar? When did the Maya think the universe began?
3) What did Tatiana Proskouriakoff discover about the Maya glyphs and carvings on stelae?
4) Who was Lord Shield, or Pakal? Why is he an important Maya figure?
5) What did the new decipherments, discovered by David Stuart, tell us about the Maya (that they were not simply ‘stargazing priests,’ but also…)?
6) What does the glyph of a hand grasping a fish mean?
7) How was the Maya world organized (socio-politically) during the Classic Period (between the 3rd and 9th centuries)? The answer is also in the Lecture 13 notes!
8) What challenges do the modern Maya face? What are archaeologists doincixg?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrbsz-7gns8
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