Research & investigation · Texts & cultural history
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Researcher of Maya inscriptions
Who they are
Proskouriakoff showed that patterns of dates recorded royal births and accessions. Her 1960 work helped recover history from the monuments.
Connects the regional chronology with the people who created or recovered its records.
Selected contributions
- Proskouriakoff showed that patterns of dates recorded royal births and accessions. Her 1960 work helped recover history from the monuments.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
Selected reading about this person
Book · 2001
The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing
A scholarly anthology of articles and historical accounts about recovering Maya writing. Publisher description and editors checked; full book not read.
Reading scope & citation
Named supporting passages or catalogue description only; no full-work reading implied.
In the timeline
Biography sources
- History of Decipherment ↗Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan / University of Bonn project
- Cracking the Maya Code: transcript ↗PBS / NOVA