David Stuart
Biographic Data
| ID | 75289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Stuart |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuart |
| SIGNATURE | STUART D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3817-7421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 673 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician
Maya glyphic texts from the Classic period (250–900 CE) typically chronicle the exploits of historical or divine characters; everyday or functional records are rare. Here, the authors offer a reconstruction and transcription of a ‘microtext’ painted on an interior wall of Structure 10K-2 at the site of Xultun, Guatemala. The text records a unique astronomical formula that concludes with a name, attributing the work to an individual named Sak Tahn…
Weaving Political Threads: A Local Noble Woman at the Lowland Maya Site of La Corona
A Teotihuacan altar at Tikal, Guatemala: Central Mexican ritual and elite interaction in the Maya Lowlands
The nature and extent of interactions between the distant regions and cultures of Mesoamerica remain open to much debate. Close economic and political ties developed between Teotihuacan and the lowland Maya during the Early Classic period (AD 250-550), yet the relationship between these cultures continues to perplex scholars. This article presents an elaborately painted altar from an elite residential group at the lowland Maya centre of Tikal, Gu…
How Can Early Christian Thought Inform Doughnut Economics
Doughnut Economics is an economic model designed to overcome the negative impact that the crude use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can have on both society and the environment. As the model becomes more widely adopted it is important to explore the model from a theological perspective. Early Christian economic thought provides a way of exploring and challenging many of the fundamental ideas and conceptualisations of the DE model. DE has much to …
Persistence of Sars-CoV-2 antibodies over 18 months following infection: UK Biobank Covid-19 Serology Study
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the persistence of antibodies after the first year following SARS-CoV-2 infection. We aimed to determine the proportion of individuals that maintain detectable levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies over an 18-month period following infection. METHODS: Population-based prospective study of 20 000 UK Biobank participants and their adult relatives recruited in May 2020. The proportion of SARS-CoV-2 cases testing positive …
The rise, expansion, and endurance of Kaanul: The view from northwestern Peten
The ancient Maya political landscape was permeated by regional systems of political asymmetry. These hegemonic networks fluctuated through time, but the steady presence of a few especially dominant polities shows that they were a persistent feature with very real sociopolitical effects. Based on research carried out at the sites of La Corona and Achiotal, and epigraphic studies in many other sites in the Maya Central Lowlands, we offer a general …
Un trono dividido: El origen y los movimientos de la Banca Jeroglífica 1 de Ixtutz, Guatemala
Aquí presentamos el descubrimiento de una banca jeroglífica esculpida del sitio maya de Ixtutz, Petén, Guatemala. Analizamos la inscripción jeroglífica en la banca y discutimos la historia del objecto en el contexto de su producción, su desmantelamiento y reutilización subsecuente, y la remoción de unas piezas del sitio. Mostramos que dos bloques inscritos de caliza, uno de ellos en una colección privada en Bruselas y el otro en el Los Angeles Co…
A Teotihuacan complex at the Classic Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala
Lidar reveals the presence of a precinct at the Classic Maya city of Tikal that probably reproduces the Ciudadela and Temple of the Feathered Serpent at the imperial capital of Teotihuacan
Chemsex: Origins of the word, a history of the phenomenon and a respect to the culture
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the origins, use and meaning of the term “chemsex”. Design/methodology/approach The approach used here is one born of personal experiences and reflection. Findings The term chemsex has a definition and a purpose that promotes culturally competent care for a marginalized group of vulnerable people. Research limitations/implications This is a qualitative, personal, point-of-view piece which may be of …
Which image types do universities tweet
Universities use social media to attract prospective staff, students, and funding; to engage with current students; and to support teaching and learning. Images on social media are becoming particularly dominant, and whilst Twitter is not primarily an image-based social media service, nonetheless 36 percent of links shared on Twitter point to an image. This research paper compares the types of images that universities post on Twitter to the resul…
Changes in chemsex and sexual behaviour over time, among a cohort of MSM in London and Brighton: Findings from the Aurah2 study
Chemsex and use of two individual chemsex drugs (mephedrone and GHB/GBL) significantly declined over time among individuals in the study, alongside most measures of sexual behaviour with the exception of those related to CLAI. Focusing health promotion and HIV prevention, such as awareness of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), on MSM that report chemsex, and in particular problematic chemsex, would be h…
Peopling the Classic Maya Court
This chapter discusses Justin and Barbara Kerr graciously allowed us to do the renderings of royal weaving bones. Maya royalty and nobility must first be viewed according to the problem of power and power relations. Power can be conventionally defined as an absolute term that helps to isolate and refine comparative patterns of coercion and obedience. For all the negative or positive tactical consequences, such contacts with major centers, either …
Classic Mayan
This essay provides an overview of the language attested in ancient Maya hieroglyphic writing, or what we choose to call Classic Mayan. 1 The writing system was in use for nearly two thousand years, beginning in what archaeologists call the Late Preclassic period (ca. 300 B.C.) and lasting until the time of European conquest and domination. In this period the hieroglyphic script was used throughout the region we traditionally know as the “Lowland…
A Mayacuria Regis: Evidence for a Hierarchical Specialist Order at Xultun, Guatemala
This article presents an in-depth analysis of an important mural painting discovered within Structure 10K2 of the Los Sabios Group at the Classic Maya site of Xultun, Guatemala. We first discuss the composition of the mural scene and its central protagonist, a Late Classic period (a.d.550–900) ruler of Xultun named Yax We'nel Chan K'inich, suggesting that it presents a ritual performance associated with an ancient New Year ceremony. Several atten…
To set before the king: Residential mural painting at Xultun, Guatemala
Masterful hands: Morelli and the Maya on the Hieroglyphic Stairway, Copan, Honduras
Nouveau regard sur le Bronze ancien en Bourgogne à la lumière de l’étude d’une hache récemment découverte en forêt d’Étaules (Côte-d’Or)
La découverte fortuite d’une lame de hache en bronze en forêt d’Étaules, dans des conditions douteuses en 2010, a conduit à son étude aussi détaillée que possible et à sa remise en contexte culturel en offrant ainsi un regard actualisé sur le Bronze ancien en Bourgogne. Cette hache à petits rebords est proche du type de Neyruz et datable du milieu du Bronze ancien. Très bien conservée, elle a été soigneusement préparée après sa sortie d’un moule …
Areal Shifts in Classic Mayan Phonology
Advances in hieroglyphic decipherment and in language contact typology provide new data and theories with which to investigate and reassess prior interpretations of Mayan linguistic history. The present study considers the shift from proto-Mayan*kand *k'to /ch/ and /ch'/, a sound change that affected several Mayan languages in different phonological contexts. This sound change, with a very particular set of conditions, has been highlighted as a d…
Reading in Context: The Interpretation of Personal Reference in Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Texts
The interpretation of deixis in language is heavily context-dependent. In spoken language, the addressee(s) have the context of an utterance to aid in its interpretation. In writing, however, language can become separated from both its creator and the context of its creation. This article investigates the use of certain deictics-first and second person markers-in ancient Maya hieroglyphics (circa AD 250-900). The temporal and cultural gap that se…
Maya calendar origins: Monuments, mythistory, and the materialization of time - By Rice, Prudence M
"A Maya Palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan "Entrada: Evidence from Murals 7 and 9
Excavations at La Sufricaya, a minor ritual group in the outskirts of the Lowland Maya city of Holmul, have documented two mural paintings inside an elite building of Early Classic date (A.D. 300-A.D. 600). One of the paintings is mythological in nature (Mural 9). The second bears an inscription with references to calendrical and historical events. It commemorates a notorious arrival date at Tikal on 11 Eb 15 Mak (January 16, A.D. 378) on its fir…
Ruok? Blogging Communication Technologies During Crises
This article compares communication technologies within and across crises, using evidence from contemporary postings in 68,022 blogs and news feeds and using a semi-automatic method to detect words that increase in usage during a crisis. Three case studies from 2005 are used: the July 7 London attacks, the New Orleans hurricane, and the Pakistan-Kashmir earthquake. The results highlight the information provision importance for bloggers of Web 2.0…
The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as …
Dangerous Garden: The Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan. Elizabeth Newsome
Of gods, glyphs and kings: Divinity and rulership among the Classic Maya
The ANTIQUITY prize-winning article in the last volume addressed writing, its varying nature and role in early states. Now that the decipherment of Maya writing is well advanced, we can know more of the records of kingship. From them we may discern the concepts and beliefs that defined the authority of these holy lords, as we seek the source of the power of rulers like 'Sun-faced Snake Jaguar
The Ancient Maya Self: Personhood and Portraiture in the Classic Period
The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Recent decipherments of Classic Maya hieroglyphs (ca. a.d. 250 to 850) reveal phonological and morphological patterns that, through epigraphic and historical analyses, isolate a single, coherent prestige language with unique and widespread features in script. We term this language "Classic Ch'olti'an" and present the evidence for its explicable historical configuration and ancestral affiliation with Eastern Ch'olan languages (Ch'olti' and its sti…
The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as …
Media discourse as a symbolic contest: The bomb in political cartoons
Investigations of a Classic Maya Council House at Copan, Honduras
Kings of Stone: A Consideration of Stelae in Ancient Maya Ritual and Representation
Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery
The Aj K'uhun Title: Deciphering a Classic Maya Term of Rank
The God C title, found in numerous hieroglyphic texts, refers to junior members of the royal court and is therefore crucial to our understanding of Classic Maya political structure. Over the past two decades, the amount of epigraphic work on the God C title has been significant. A consensus on its reading and meaning, however, has yet to be reached. In this article, we build on earlier research to suggest new ideas for reading this glyph, based o…
"A Maya Palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan "Entrada: Evidence from Murals 7 and 9
Excavations at La Sufricaya, a minor ritual group in the outskirts of the Lowland Maya city of Holmul, have documented two mural paintings inside an elite building of Early Classic date (A.D. 300-A.D. 600). One of the paintings is mythological in nature (Mural 9). The second bears an inscription with references to calendrical and historical events. It commemorates a notorious arrival date at Tikal on 11 Eb 15 Mak (January 16, A.D. 378) on its fir…
Hieroglyphs and Archaeology at Copan
The study of Copan's extensive hieroglyphic texts has grown hand in hand with long-term architectural excavations. Recent progress in Maya decipherment, much of it derived from work at Copan, now allows for new and potentially rewarding opportunities to integrate epigraphy and “dirt” archaeology. Toward this end, this paper provides an overview of the current knowledge of Copan's elite history, summarizing current knowledge of the ruler sequence …
The decipherment of ancient Maya writing
This anthology of classic articles documents the cognitive history of decipherment of ancient Maya writing. The editors present 48 milestone studies, introducing each with a biographical sketch of the author and brief but substantive commentary on the treatise's place in decipherment history. Together the essays comprise a fascinating historical reflection on the intellectual process of hieroglyphic decipherment that may prove to be its dominant …
Cacao Residues in Ancient Maya Vessels from Rio Azul, Guatemala
Results of chemical analyses on residues collected from ceramic vessels found in an Early Classic period Maya tomb revealed that certain of the residues contained theobromine and caffeine, a clear indication that the corresponding vessels once contained cacao in some form. One of the vessels yielding cacao residues is decorated with hieroglyphs, two of which we believe have the phonetic values for the word 'cacao' in the Mayan language. These fin…
Royal Auto-Sacrifice among the Maya: A Study of Image and Meaning
On Maya Hieroglyphic Literacy
The Río Azul cacao pot: Epigraphic observations on the function of a Maya ceramic vessel
Despite decades of extensive study of ancient Maya ceramics, a few basic questions still vex the archaeologist: What were the actual uses of the distinct types of Maya vessels? How can we determine the precise function of some pottery forms? How can we understand the classification the Maya themselves had for their pots? This brief note, using a recently-discovered vessel from Río Azul, Guatemala, as an illustration, will show that such questions…
Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations
Ruok? Blogging Communication Technologies During Crises
This article compares communication technologies within and across crises, using evidence from contemporary postings in 68,022 blogs and news feeds and using a semi-automatic method to detect words that increase in usage during a crisis. Three case studies from 2005 are used: the July 7 London attacks, the New Orleans hurricane, and the Pakistan-Kashmir earthquake. The results highlight the information provision importance for bloggers of Web 2.0…
Reading in Context: The Interpretation of Personal Reference in Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Texts
The interpretation of deixis in language is heavily context-dependent. In spoken language, the addressee(s) have the context of an utterance to aid in its interpretation. In writing, however, language can become separated from both its creator and the context of its creation. This article investigates the use of certain deictics-first and second person markers-in ancient Maya hieroglyphics (circa AD 250-900). The temporal and cultural gap that se…
A Mayacuria Regis: Evidence for a Hierarchical Specialist Order at Xultun, Guatemala
This article presents an in-depth analysis of an important mural painting discovered within Structure 10K2 of the Los Sabios Group at the Classic Maya site of Xultun, Guatemala. We first discuss the composition of the mural scene and its central protagonist, a Late Classic period (a.d.550–900) ruler of Xultun named Yax We'nel Chan K'inich, suggesting that it presents a ritual performance associated with an ancient New Year ceremony. Several atten…
The Decipherment of “Directional Count Glyphs” in Maya Inscriptions
Two “Directional Count Glyphs” have long been recognized as the indicators of backward and forward chronological reckonings in Maya inscriptions. Their traditional decipherment, following early work by Thompson, is founded upon the readingxok, ‘to count’, for one frequent sign in these glyphs. The present study calls this reading into question by suggesting that all ‘count’ glyphs are readu-ti, spelling the verbut, ‘come to pass’. This decipherme…
The rise, expansion, and endurance of Kaanul: The view from northwestern Peten
The ancient Maya political landscape was permeated by regional systems of political asymmetry. These hegemonic networks fluctuated through time, but the steady presence of a few especially dominant polities shows that they were a persistent feature with very real sociopolitical effects. Based on research carried out at the sites of La Corona and Achiotal, and epigraphic studies in many other sites in the Maya Central Lowlands, we offer a general …
A Teotihuacan complex at the Classic Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala
Lidar reveals the presence of a precinct at the Classic Maya city of Tikal that probably reproduces the Ciudadela and Temple of the Feathered Serpent at the imperial capital of Teotihuacan
Areal Shifts in Classic Mayan Phonology
Advances in hieroglyphic decipherment and in language contact typology provide new data and theories with which to investigate and reassess prior interpretations of Mayan linguistic history. The present study considers the shift from proto-Mayan*kand *k'to /ch/ and /ch'/, a sound change that affected several Mayan languages in different phonological contexts. This sound change, with a very particular set of conditions, has been highlighted as a d…
To set before the king: Residential mural painting at Xultun, Guatemala
Royal Auto-Sacrifice among the Maya: A Study of Image and Meaning
The Río Azul cacao pot: Epigraphic observations on the function of a Maya ceramic vessel
Despite decades of extensive study of ancient Maya ceramics, a few basic questions still vex the archaeologist: What were the actual uses of the distinct types of Maya vessels? How can we determine the precise function of some pottery forms? How can we understand the classification the Maya themselves had for their pots? This brief note, using a recently-discovered vessel from Río Azul, Guatemala, as an illustration, will show that such questions…
Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery
The Decipherment of “Directional Count Glyphs” in Maya Inscriptions
Two “Directional Count Glyphs” have long been recognized as the indicators of backward and forward chronological reckonings in Maya inscriptions. Their traditional decipherment, following early work by Thompson, is founded upon the readingxok, ‘to count’, for one frequent sign in these glyphs. The present study calls this reading into question by suggesting that all ‘count’ glyphs are readu-ti, spelling the verbut, ‘come to pass’. This decipherme…
Cacao Residues in Ancient Maya Vessels from Rio Azul, Guatemala
Results of chemical analyses on residues collected from ceramic vessels found in an Early Classic period Maya tomb revealed that certain of the residues contained theobromine and caffeine, a clear indication that the corresponding vessels once contained cacao in some form. One of the vessels yielding cacao residues is decorated with hieroglyphs, two of which we believe have the phonetic values for the word 'cacao' in the Mayan language. These fin…
Investigations of a Classic Maya Council House at Copan, Honduras
Media discourse as a symbolic contest: The bomb in political cartoons
Hieroglyphs and Archaeology at Copan
The study of Copan's extensive hieroglyphic texts has grown hand in hand with long-term architectural excavations. Recent progress in Maya decipherment, much of it derived from work at Copan, now allows for new and potentially rewarding opportunities to integrate epigraphy and “dirt” archaeology. Toward this end, this paper provides an overview of the current knowledge of Copan's elite history, summarizing current knowledge of the ruler sequence …
On Maya Hieroglyphic Literacy
Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations
Classic Maya Place Names
Kings of Stone: A Consideration of Stelae in Ancient Maya Ritual and Representation
Of gods, glyphs and kings: Divinity and rulership among the Classic Maya
The ANTIQUITY prize-winning article in the last volume addressed writing, its varying nature and role in early states. Now that the decipherment of Maya writing is well advanced, we can know more of the records of kingship. From them we may discern the concepts and beliefs that defined the authority of these holy lords, as we seek the source of the power of rulers like 'Sun-faced Snake Jaguar
Alternative Literacies
Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter Mignolo
The Ancient Maya Self: Personhood and Portraiture in the Classic Period
The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Recent decipherments of Classic Maya hieroglyphs (ca. a.d. 250 to 850) reveal phonological and morphological patterns that, through epigraphic and historical analyses, isolate a single, coherent prestige language with unique and widespread features in script. We term this language "Classic Ch'olti'an" and present the evidence for its explicable historical configuration and ancestral affiliation with Eastern Ch'olan languages (Ch'olti' and its sti…
The decipherment of ancient Maya writing
This anthology of classic articles documents the cognitive history of decipherment of ancient Maya writing. The editors present 48 milestone studies, introducing each with a biographical sketch of the author and brief but substantive commentary on the treatise's place in decipherment history. Together the essays comprise a fascinating historical reflection on the intellectual process of hieroglyphic decipherment that may prove to be its dominant …
The Aj K'uhun Title: Deciphering a Classic Maya Term of Rank
The God C title, found in numerous hieroglyphic texts, refers to junior members of the royal court and is therefore crucial to our understanding of Classic Maya political structure. Over the past two decades, the amount of epigraphic work on the God C title has been significant. A consensus on its reading and meaning, however, has yet to be reached. In this article, we build on earlier research to suggest new ideas for reading this glyph, based o…
More on the Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan. Elizabeth Newsome
Dangerous Garden: The Quest for Plants to Change Our Lives
The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as …
Ruok? Blogging Communication Technologies During Crises
This article compares communication technologies within and across crises, using evidence from contemporary postings in 68,022 blogs and news feeds and using a semi-automatic method to detect words that increase in usage during a crisis. Three case studies from 2005 are used: the July 7 London attacks, the New Orleans hurricane, and the Pakistan-Kashmir earthquake. The results highlight the information provision importance for bloggers of Web 2.0…
"A Maya Palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan "Entrada: Evidence from Murals 7 and 9
Excavations at La Sufricaya, a minor ritual group in the outskirts of the Lowland Maya city of Holmul, have documented two mural paintings inside an elite building of Early Classic date (A.D. 300-A.D. 600). One of the paintings is mythological in nature (Mural 9). The second bears an inscription with references to calendrical and historical events. It commemorates a notorious arrival date at Tikal on 11 Eb 15 Mak (January 16, A.D. 378) on its fir…
Maya calendar origins: Monuments, mythistory, and the materialization of time - By Rice, Prudence M
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