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Mayanist
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Mayanist is a term which has been in widespread use from the late 19th century onwards, to refer to scholars who have specialised in research and study of the Central American pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
Mayanists working in this specialised field have drawn upon their expertise in many inter-related disciplines: archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, ethnology, history, photography/art, architecture, astronomy, ceramics, to name but a few.
The term has particularly been adopted by those who have studied and contributed to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, the complex and elaborate writing system which was developed by the ancient Maya.
The term was coined by parallel with specialised fields studying other historical civilizations; see for example, Egyptologist (Ancient Egypt) and Assyriologist (Ancient Mesopotamia).
Notable deceased Mayanists
Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
Frederick Catherwood
Désiré Charnay
Napoleon Cordy (1902-1977)
Ernst Förstermann
Alfred V. Kidder
Yuri Knorosov (1922-1999)
Teobert Maler
Alfred Maudslay
Sylvanus Morley (1883-1948)
Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909-1985)
Leon de Rosny
Ralph L. Roys
Linda Schele
John Lloyd Stephens
Edward Herbert Thompson
J. Eric S. Thompson (1898-1975)
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
Gordon Willey
Notable livings
Michael Coe
Nikolai Grube
Stephen Houston
Simon Martin.mayanist
David Stuart
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