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Acknowledgments The origins of this paper stem from the seminar “Under the shadow of the
Moon: the perception of the Moon in America” taught at the Postgraduate Studies in Archaeology
in spring 2020 at Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. It is part of the project no. 31549
“Lunar Theory in Maya Astronomy” supported by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e
Historia in Mexico. All errors are mine.
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among the classic maya. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Justeson, J. S. (1989). Ancient Maya ethnoastronomy: An overview of hieroglyphic sources. In
A. F. Aveni (Ed.), World archaeoastronomy (pp. 76–129). Cambridge: Cambridge University
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Justeson, J. S. (2017). A cyclical-time model for eclipse prediction in mesoamerica and the structure of the eclipse table in the dresden codex. Ancient Mesoamerica, 28(2), 507–541.
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Codex. Journal for the History of Astronomy, 24(3), 291–303.
S. Iwaniszewski
Acknowledgments The origins of this paper stem from the seminar “Under the shadow of the
Moon: the perception of the Moon in America” taught at the Postgraduate Studies in Archaeology
in spring 2020 at Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. It is part of the project no. 31549
“Lunar Theory in Maya Astronomy” supported by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e
Historia in Mexico. All errors are mine.
References
Aldana, G. (2006). Lunar Alliances: Shedding Light on Conflicting Classic Maya Theories of
Hegemony. En: Todd W. Bostwick y Bryan Bates (editors) Viewing the Sky Through Past
and Present Cultures, 237–258. [Pueblo Grande Museum Anthropological Papers, No. 15].
Phoenix, City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department.
Bíró, P. (2011). The classic maya western region: A history. Oxford: British Archaeological
Reports (BAR International Series, 2308).
Brauer, T. (2013). Some new results concerning the C- and A-glyphs in the lunar series of the classic maya. Mexicon, 35(5), 114–116.
Bricker, H. M., & Bricker, V. R. (2011). Astronomy in the maya codices. In Memoirs of the
American Philosophical Society (Vol. 265). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
Britton, J. P. (1989). An early function for eclipse magnitudes in babylonian astronomy. Centaurus,
32, 1–52.
Davoust, M. (1994). The great venus cycle and solar and lunar eclipses with their incidence on
postclassic maya society. Mayab, 9, 66–67.
Escobedo, H. L. (1993). Entidades políticas del noroeste de las Montañas Mayas durante el periodo Clásico Tardío. In J. P. Laporte, H. L. Escobedo, & S. V. de Brady (Eds.), VI Simposio de
Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 1992 (pp. 1–21). Guatemala: Museo Nacional
de Arqueología y Etnología.
Fuls, A. (2007). The calculation of the lunar series on classic maya monuments. Ancient
Mesoamerica, 18(2), 273–282.
González, G., & Eugenia, M. (2012). Los dioses y la vida ritual de Quiriguá en sus textos jeroglíficos. Ph.D. Dissertation. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Grube, N. (2018). The forms of glyph X of the lunar series. In Research Note 9. Textdatenbank und
Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya. Bonn: Arbeitsstelle der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften und der Künste an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
Retrieved from 18th March, 2018.
Guthe, C. E. (1921). A possible solution of the number series on pages 51 to 58 of the dresden
codex. In Papers of the peabody museum of american archaeology and ethnology, Harvard
University Vol. VI, no. 2. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum.
Hartner, W. (1969). Eclipse periods and thales’ prediction of a solar eclipse: Historic truth and
modern myth. Centaurus, 14(1), 60–71.
Houston, S., Stuart, D., & Taube, K. (2006). The memory of bones: Body, being, and experience
among the classic maya. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Justeson, J. S. (1989). Ancient Maya ethnoastronomy: An overview of hieroglyphic sources. In
A. F. Aveni (Ed.), World archaeoastronomy (pp. 76–129). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Justeson, J. S. (2017). A cyclical-time model for eclipse prediction in mesoamerica and the structure of the eclipse table in the dresden codex. Ancient Mesoamerica, 28(2), 507–541.
Kelley, D. H. (1976). Deciphering the Maya script. Austin, London: University of Texas Press.
Kettunen, H., Helmke, C. (2020). Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs. 17th Revised Edition. Wayeb.
Retrieved 19th March, 2020 from, www.wayeb.org.
Knowlton, T. (2003). Seasonal Implications of Maya Eclipse and Rain Iconography in the Dresden
Codex. Journal for the History of Astronomy, 24(3), 291–303.
S. Iwaniszewski