Monday, October 11, 2010

Artifact: Maya Calendar

The Maya calendar is carved out of stone and is based on a system that was typical and widely used at the time; it shares characteristics with other early Mesoamerican calendars, but the Maya calendar is the most sophisticated, best documented, and most easily understood of the versions. The Maya had three main methods of documenting time: Long Count, the Haab, and the Tzolk'in. The majority of Maya time concepts are cyclical ideas.

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  1. Stephen Bender, AIAOctober 12, 2010 at 9:26 PM

    This is an overwhelmingly important artifact. You have a great opening statement here. Continue to expand the three ways of documenting (scale) and analyze the form (cyclical/circular).

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