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EXCEPTING the splendid labours of A. P. Maudslay, embodied in four volumes of beautiful illustrations, with a descriptive text, the study of old Maya civilisation is almost entirely German-American, and it became a science through Foerstemann, who, with marvellous intuition, was the first to read some of the glyphs.
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Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Vol. vi. A Study of Maya Art: Its Subject Matter and Historical Development. By H. J. Spinden . Pp. xxiii + 285 + 29 plates + map. (Cambridge, Mass; Peabody Museum, 1913.)
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G., H. Maya Art 1 . Nature 93, 454–457 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093454e0
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