John S Justeson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 139286 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John S Justeson |
| PRENOMES | John S |
| SOBRENOME | Justeson |
| ASSINATURA | JUSTESON J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5292-1691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1954 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette
The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents t…
A Cyclic-Time Model for Eclipse Prediction in Mesoamerica and the Structure of the Eclipse Table in the Dresden Codex
This study describes, illustrates, and applies an “eclipse family” representation for the cyclic timing of eclipses in Mesoamerica. This theoretical construct is based on daykeepers’ approach to divination, anchored in the divinatory calendar (DC); empirically, it emerges from data on the timing of eclipses in Lowland Mayan1territory between 100b.c.e.and 1500c.e.drawn from Espenak and Meuss's (2007, 2009) eclipse canons.An eclipse family consists…
Early Mesoamerican Writing Systems
From a comparative perspective, the early development of writing in Mesoamerica is poorly preserved. In Mesopotamia, more than six thousand tablets attest the first two centuries of the archaic, proto-cuneiform stage of the world's most ancient writing system. In contrast, the first few centuries of Mesoamerican writing, up to about 400 bc, are probably represented by fewer than a dozen texts. This article discusses Formative period scripts, rela…
Historical Linguistics and Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
This article presents some of the authors' perspectives on the past 20 years of work that applies the results of research in historical linguistics to the understanding of the histories and cultural practices of pre-Columbian Mesoamericans. It focuses on major cultural transformations to which both historical linguistic and archaeological data can contribute, such as the spread of agriculture, and migrations in Mesoamerican prehistory. It also ad…
Eclipse Records in a Corpus of Colonial Zapotec 260-Day Calendars
This paper translates and analyzes references to eclipses in two seventeenth-century Zapotec calendrical booklets.1These booklets are part of a corpus of 106 separate calendrical texts and four collections of ritual songs that were turned over to ecclesiastical authorities in 1704 and 1705 as part of an ambitious campaign against traditional indigenous ritual practices conducted in the province of Villa Alta in northern Oaxaca. Both of these book…
The History of the Word for Cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica
The word * kakaw ( a ) ('cacao', Theobroma cacao ) was widely diffused among Mesoamerican languages, and from there to much of lower Central America. This study provides evidence establishing beyond reasonable doubt that this word originated in the Mije-Sokean family; that it spread from the Mije-Sokean languages in or around the Olmec heartland into southeastern Mesoamerican languages; that its diffusion into Mayan languages took place between a…
Variation and change in symbol systems
Archaeological study of cognitive systems ‘Cognition’ refers to the representation of knowledge and to the processes operating on those representations; a ‘cognitive archaeology’ would investigate aspects of knowledge representation and information processing which are recoverable from the archaeological record. This chapter is part of a workshop on the scientific directions which such investigations might take. The workshop within which these di…
Cross-Linguistic Generalizations concerning Frication of w
Writing Systems
An examination, through a series of detailed case studies, of the different ways in which the world’s cultures have made spoken language visible and permanent
The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script
The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script
The origin of writing systems
This paper focuses on the origins of Mesoamerican writing, analyzing remains of precursor systems in terms of the linguistic and graphic resources for the emergence of written language. This emergence is seen as the outcome of a conjunction of numerals with elements of representational art. Hieroglyphic writing emerged in southern Mesoamerica during the era of state formation, apparently via this process, to represent day names in the ritual cale…
Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing
A classic in the literature on the decipherment of Mayan writing, Phoneticism grew out of the famous Albany conference - a gathering of the leading Mayanists who were working within the modern, linguistically-informed paradigm for the analysis of Mayan hieroglyphic text. This volume contains nine seminal articles and appendixes. Many of the phonetic readings on which current epigraphic work depends are worked out and presented here. Several paper…
Linguistic Anthropology
Closed Models of Open Systems
W > y in Chontal (Mayan) of Tabasco and Generalizations concerning the Palatalization of w
Hieroglyphic Evidence for Lowland Mayan Linguistic History
On the relationship between the numbers of vowels and consonants in phonological systems
The Seating of the tun
Hieroglyphic and comparative linguistic evidence indicate that a Lowland Maya stela cult had been in existence, with monuments being erected predominantly or exclusively at the end of the 360-day year, in Late Preclassic times. These data corroborate Hammond's (1982) evidence for Late Preclassic stela erection. With his demonstration that the stela cult was associated with public architecture and a sacrificial burial at Cuello, the inference that…
Nasal + Obstruent Clusters in Hittite
Television Productions
Text/Fiche
Mesoamerican Writing Systems
Limitations of Archaeological Inference
A framework is established for the application of information-theoretic concepts to the study of archaeological inference, ultimately to provide an estimate of the degree to which archaeologists, or anthropologists in general, can provide legitimate answers to the questions they investigate. Particular information-theoretic measures are applied to the design elements on the ceramics of a southwestern pueblo to show the methodological utility of i…
Paul Bunyan in California
Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing
A classic in the literature on the decipherment of Mayan writing, Phoneticism grew out of the famous Albany conference - a gathering of the leading Mayanists who were working within the modern, linguistically-informed paradigm for the analysis of Mayan hieroglyphic text. This volume contains nine seminal articles and appendixes. Many of the phonetic readings on which current epigraphic work depends are worked out and presented here. Several paper…
The origin of writing systems
This paper focuses on the origins of Mesoamerican writing, analyzing remains of precursor systems in terms of the linguistic and graphic resources for the emergence of written language. This emergence is seen as the outcome of a conjunction of numerals with elements of representational art. Hieroglyphic writing emerged in southern Mesoamerica during the era of state formation, apparently via this process, to represent day names in the ritual cale…
The History of the Word for Cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica
The word * kakaw ( a ) ('cacao', Theobroma cacao ) was widely diffused among Mesoamerican languages, and from there to much of lower Central America. This study provides evidence establishing beyond reasonable doubt that this word originated in the Mije-Sokean family; that it spread from the Mije-Sokean languages in or around the Olmec heartland into southeastern Mesoamerican languages; that its diffusion into Mayan languages took place between a…
Historical Linguistics and Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
This article presents some of the authors' perspectives on the past 20 years of work that applies the results of research in historical linguistics to the understanding of the histories and cultural practices of pre-Columbian Mesoamericans. It focuses on major cultural transformations to which both historical linguistic and archaeological data can contribute, such as the spread of agriculture, and migrations in Mesoamerican prehistory. It also ad…
The Seating of the tun
Hieroglyphic and comparative linguistic evidence indicate that a Lowland Maya stela cult had been in existence, with monuments being erected predominantly or exclusively at the end of the 360-day year, in Late Preclassic times. These data corroborate Hammond's (1982) evidence for Late Preclassic stela erection. With his demonstration that the stela cult was associated with public architecture and a sacrificial burial at Cuello, the inference that…
Eclipse Records in a Corpus of Colonial Zapotec 260-Day Calendars
This paper translates and analyzes references to eclipses in two seventeenth-century Zapotec calendrical booklets.1These booklets are part of a corpus of 106 separate calendrical texts and four collections of ritual songs that were turned over to ecclesiastical authorities in 1704 and 1705 as part of an ambitious campaign against traditional indigenous ritual practices conducted in the province of Villa Alta in northern Oaxaca. Both of these book…
A Cyclic-Time Model for Eclipse Prediction in Mesoamerica and the Structure of the Eclipse Table in the Dresden Codex
This study describes, illustrates, and applies an “eclipse family” representation for the cyclic timing of eclipses in Mesoamerica. This theoretical construct is based on daykeepers’ approach to divination, anchored in the divinatory calendar (DC); empirically, it emerges from data on the timing of eclipses in Lowland Mayan1territory between 100b.c.e.and 1500c.e.drawn from Espenak and Meuss's (2007, 2009) eclipse canons.An eclipse family consists…
W > y in Chontal (Mayan) of Tabasco and Generalizations concerning the Palatalization of w
Hieroglyphic Evidence for Lowland Mayan Linguistic History
Paul Bunyan in California
Limitations of Archaeological Inference
A framework is established for the application of information-theoretic concepts to the study of archaeological inference, ultimately to provide an estimate of the degree to which archaeologists, or anthropologists in general, can provide legitimate answers to the questions they investigate. Particular information-theoretic measures are applied to the design elements on the ceramics of a southwestern pueblo to show the methodological utility of i…
Text/Fiche
Mesoamerican Writing Systems
Television Productions
Nasal + Obstruent Clusters in Hittite
The Seating of the tun
Hieroglyphic and comparative linguistic evidence indicate that a Lowland Maya stela cult had been in existence, with monuments being erected predominantly or exclusively at the end of the 360-day year, in Late Preclassic times. These data corroborate Hammond's (1982) evidence for Late Preclassic stela erection. With his demonstration that the stela cult was associated with public architecture and a sacrificial burial at Cuello, the inference that…
On the relationship between the numbers of vowels and consonants in phonological systems
Closed Models of Open Systems
W > y in Chontal (Mayan) of Tabasco and Generalizations concerning the Palatalization of w
Hieroglyphic Evidence for Lowland Mayan Linguistic History
The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script
The Foreign Impact on Lowland Mayan Language and Script
The origin of writing systems
This paper focuses on the origins of Mesoamerican writing, analyzing remains of precursor systems in terms of the linguistic and graphic resources for the emergence of written language. This emergence is seen as the outcome of a conjunction of numerals with elements of representational art. Hieroglyphic writing emerged in southern Mesoamerica during the era of state formation, apparently via this process, to represent day names in the ritual cale…
Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing
A classic in the literature on the decipherment of Mayan writing, Phoneticism grew out of the famous Albany conference - a gathering of the leading Mayanists who were working within the modern, linguistically-informed paradigm for the analysis of Mayan hieroglyphic text. This volume contains nine seminal articles and appendixes. Many of the phonetic readings on which current epigraphic work depends are worked out and presented here. Several paper…
Linguistic Anthropology
Writing Systems
An examination, through a series of detailed case studies, of the different ways in which the world’s cultures have made spoken language visible and permanent
Cross-Linguistic Generalizations concerning Frication of w
Variation and change in symbol systems
Archaeological study of cognitive systems ‘Cognition’ refers to the representation of knowledge and to the processes operating on those representations; a ‘cognitive archaeology’ would investigate aspects of knowledge representation and information processing which are recoverable from the archaeological record. This chapter is part of a workshop on the scientific directions which such investigations might take. The workshop within which these di…
The History of the Word for Cacao in Ancient Mesoamerica
The word * kakaw ( a ) ('cacao', Theobroma cacao ) was widely diffused among Mesoamerican languages, and from there to much of lower Central America. This study provides evidence establishing beyond reasonable doubt that this word originated in the Mije-Sokean family; that it spread from the Mije-Sokean languages in or around the Olmec heartland into southeastern Mesoamerican languages; that its diffusion into Mayan languages took place between a…
Eclipse Records in a Corpus of Colonial Zapotec 260-Day Calendars
This paper translates and analyzes references to eclipses in two seventeenth-century Zapotec calendrical booklets.1These booklets are part of a corpus of 106 separate calendrical texts and four collections of ritual songs that were turned over to ecclesiastical authorities in 1704 and 1705 as part of an ambitious campaign against traditional indigenous ritual practices conducted in the province of Villa Alta in northern Oaxaca. Both of these book…
Historical Linguistics and Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
This article presents some of the authors' perspectives on the past 20 years of work that applies the results of research in historical linguistics to the understanding of the histories and cultural practices of pre-Columbian Mesoamericans. It focuses on major cultural transformations to which both historical linguistic and archaeological data can contribute, such as the spread of agriculture, and migrations in Mesoamerican prehistory. It also ad…
Early Mesoamerican Writing Systems
From a comparative perspective, the early development of writing in Mesoamerica is poorly preserved. In Mesopotamia, more than six thousand tablets attest the first two centuries of the archaic, proto-cuneiform stage of the world's most ancient writing system. In contrast, the first few centuries of Mesoamerican writing, up to about 400 bc, are probably represented by fewer than a dozen texts. This article discusses Formative period scripts, rela…
A Cyclic-Time Model for Eclipse Prediction in Mesoamerica and the Structure of the Eclipse Table in the Dresden Codex
This study describes, illustrates, and applies an “eclipse family” representation for the cyclic timing of eclipses in Mesoamerica. This theoretical construct is based on daykeepers’ approach to divination, anchored in the divinatory calendar (DC); empirically, it emerges from data on the timing of eclipses in Lowland Mayan1territory between 100b.c.e.and 1500c.e.drawn from Espenak and Meuss's (2007, 2009) eclipse canons.An eclipse family consists…
The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette
The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents t…
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