Symposium | 21 Feb | Thursday Jagiellonian University, Institute of

Symposium | 21 Feb | Thursday
Jagiellonian University, Institute of History, Gołębia 13 Street, Tischner Hall
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
INTRODUCTION
9:00 - 9:30
Welcome address (Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz, Director of the Institute
of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University)
9:30 – 9:45
Michał Pałasz (originator of the Mayamural Kraków Project,
Jagiellonian University)
Mayamural - Maya Glyphs as Street Art in Cracow
SESSION 1 | MAYA EPIGRAPHY AND LINGUISTICS
9:45 - 10:30
Harri Kettunen (University of Helsinki)
Corpus Epigraphy: Linguistic Implications and Didactic Applications
10:30 – 11:15 Agnieszka Hamann (University of Warsaw)
Why is it so Difficult to Understand a Culture that is Gone? Some Insights
from Cognitive Linguistics
11:15 - 11:45
Coffee break
11:45 - 12:30 Christophe Helmke (University of Copenhagen) & Jarosław Źrałka
(Jagiellonian University)
A Preliminary Overview of the Glyphic Corpus of Nakum, Guatemala
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12:30 - 13:15 Alexander Safronov (The Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Localization of Tubal Toponym: Understanding of Maya Hieroglyphic
Inscriptions through GIS
13:15 - 14:00 Guido Krempel (University of Bonn)
Introducing a Stranger: The Tayra (Eira barbara) in Classic Maya Imagery
and Writing
14:00 - 15:30 Lunch break
SESSION 2 | WRITING TRADITIONS AND SYSTEMS OF COMMUNICATION IN
CENTRAL MEXICO:
FROM TEOTIHUACAN TO THE NAHUAS
15:30 - 16:15
Jesper Nielsen and Christophe Helmke (University of Copenhagen)
House of Darts, House of Fire: The Names of Buildings in Teotihuacan
Writing
16:15 - 17:00 Katarzyna Mikulska-Dąbrowska (University of Warsaw)
Sistema de comunicación grafica en los códices manticos del grupo Borgia
frente a sistemas glotograficos
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:15 Justyna Olko (Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw)
The Nahua Writing Tradition through the Colonial Era
18:15 - 19:00 Victoriano de la Cruz (Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of
Warsaw)
La escritura náhuatl contemporánea: continuidad y adaptación a los nuevos
espacios
19:00 - 19:30 Discussion
Welcome party | 21 Feb| Thursday
Mundo Perdido Pub, Batorego 1 Street, 21:00
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3rd CMC SPECIAL PRESENTATION | 22 Feb | Friday
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sławkowska 17 Street, Large Hall, 19:00
NORMAN HAMMOND
(McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University and
Department of Archaeology, Boston University)
Archaeology before Epigraphy. Middle Preclassic Maya Economy, Culture, and Society at
Cuello, Belize
HOSTS´ TALK | 23 Feb| saturday
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology, Golebia 11 Street, Room 210, 19:00
Jarosław Źrałka (Jagiellonian University) & Wiesław Koszkul (Jagiellonian
University)
Applying New and Old, Traditional Methods in Archaeology: Results of Recent Research
Carried Out at the Maya Site of Nakum (Guatemala)
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Workshops | 22-24 Feb | Friday/Saturday/Sunday
10:00 – 13:00 Part 1
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 17:30 Part 2
Maya I Workshop:
Alexander Safronow & Ivan Savchenko
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology, Gołębia 11 Street, Gothic Hall
Evolution of Maya Hieroglyphic Text: From Early to Terminal Classic
Workshop activity will concentrate around studying of time changing of Maya royal
inscriptions during the Classic period. The main workshop idea is studying hieroglyphic texts
dedicated to numerous Maya royal persons and understanding general principles of
transforming that kind of written sources between 3 rd and 10th centuries. Students will get
knowledge about evolution of forms and variations, structure, context, grammar and some
other aspects of Maya royal texts, as same as monuments iconography. We will try to present
the process of evolution in selection of famous and some not well-known monuments from
different sites of Maya Lowlands area. Workshop studies will start with Early Classic
inscriptions from Central Peten monuments. Then we’ll produce research of several Middle
Classic inscriptions, especially the texts of the Teotihuacan domination period. Students will
also work with brilliant examples of Late Classic Maya royal monuments from certain sites of
Maya central area (Tikal, Naranjo, Dos Pilas, Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras). The final workshop
action will be related to analysis of some Terminal Classic texts from Northern Yucatan sites.
The workshop will include several presentations on the main topic, independent work in
small students groups and collective discussing of some interesting inscriptions.
Maya II Workshop:
Harri Kettunen, Guido Krempel & Sebastian Matteo
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sławkowska 17 Street, Room 31
Graphic Origin of Maya Signs
The objective of this workshop is to examine the graphic and lexical origins of Maya
hieroglyphic signs. The participants will be looking at the visual characteristics of a range of
signs and connecting them to the real-life counterparts. Beside studying the graphic origin of
Maya signs, the participants will also analyze the lexical origin of the signs by examining
relevant dictionaries and other linguistic sources. The analyses will be carried out in small
groups with the aid of reference materials and the guidance of the tutors. The sessions also
include lectures on various topics related to the theme of the workshop. The participants are
asked to bring their laptops along to the workshop, when possible, in order to obtain the
reference materials in digital format at the onset of the workshop. It is not necessary that
each participant has a laptop as long as there is one available for each group.
General tuition will be given in English but explanations can also be provided in other
languages (including Finnish, French, German and Spanish) on an individual basis.
Previous knowledge of Maya hieroglyphic writing is not required to attend the workshop but
it will help to follow the arguments presented.
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Central Mexican Writing Systems Workshop I:
Christophe Helmke & Jesper Nielsen
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Gołębia 9
Street, Room 14
The Writing Systems of Early Classic and Epiclassic Central Mexico
Over the past two decades our knowledge of the writing systems of central Mexico in the
Early Classic (AD 200-650; Teotihuacan) and the Epiclassic (AD 650-950; Xochicalco,
Cacaxtla, Teotenango, etc.) periods has increased considerably. As a result there is now
sufficient evidence to suggest that these scripts were closely related and that they laid the
foundations for the later writing system of the Postclassic Aztec. It has often been argued that
these early central Mexican writing systems, like the Aztec script, was essentially defective or
imperfect writing systems, basically ideographic / notational / logographic in nature, and
exhibiting little or no phoneticism. An alternate view holds that we are confronted with
semasiographic systems not specifically tied to language. However, recent studies suggest
that Teotihuacan and Epiclassic writing are fully viable writing systems of the logo-phonetic
type with two main classes of signs (logograms and phonetic signs, the latter comprising
vocalic signs and syllabograms). The workshop is designed to all interested in this new
approach. The workshop will provide an introduction to the most important sites and give an
overview of the epigraphic investigations carried out by previous scholars, as well as the
textual corpora and their archaeological contexts. This will be followed by more in-depth
treatment of topics such as a) calendrics, b) toponyms, c) titles and personal names, d)
speech scrolls and e) possible verbal statements. Other subjects to be touched upon are the
candidate languages for the various scripts, the relationship (similarities and differences)
between the western and eastern Mesoamerican writing systems and the distinction between
the study of imagery (iconography) and text (epigraphy). The workshop will consist of
presentations by the tutors and group work with selected hands-on exercises.
Basic literature includes:
Berlo, Janet C.
1989 “Early Writing in Central Mexico: In Tlilli, In Tlapalli.” Mesoamerica after the Decline
of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700-900, edited by Richard A. Diehl & Janet C. Berlo, pp. 19-47.
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Helmke, Christophe & Jesper Nielsen
2011 The Writing System of Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Ancient America, Special Publication
No. 2. Boundary End Archaeology Research Center, Barnardsville.
Nielsen, Jesper & Christophe Helmke
2008 “Spearthrower Owl Hill: A Toponym at Atetelco, Teotihuacan.” Latin American
Antiquity, Vol. 19 (4): 459-474.
2011 Reinterpreting the Plaza de los Glifos, La Ventilla, Teotihuacan. Ancient Mesoamerica,
Vol. 22 (2): 345-370.
Taube, Karl A.
2000 “The Writing System of Ancient Teotihuacan.” Ancient America, No. 1: 1-56.
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Central Mexican Writing Systems Workshop II:
Katarzyna Mikulska-Dąbrowska
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sławkowska 17 Street, Room 26
Introducción al estudio del Codice Borgia y de otros codices adivinatorios del
México Central / Introduction to the Study of the Codex Borgia and Other
Divinatory Codices from Central Mexico
El objetivo del taller es dar pautas a los participantes cómo emprender el estudio de los
códices de temática adivinatoria, procedentes del ampliamente comprendido México central.
Se trata básicamente de los códices Borgia, Vaticano B y Cospi, pero constantemente se harán
comparaciones con otros códices que abarcan similar temática. Durante el taller se
proporcionará la información sobre la composición de estos manuscritos, así como se
conocerán las convenciones gráficas propias de cada documento. También se impartirán
datos sobre los principales ciclos calendáricos, que fungen como el marco organizador para
el contenido de estos manuscritos, pero también crean activamente el significado augural
mismo (al lado de otros elementos mánticos). Para ver cómo se logra este último objetivo, se
analizarán con más detalle el ciclo de las trecenas (con ejemplos elegidos) y el ciclo de Venus.
Se conocerán también otros tipos de almanaques y su método de funcionamiento, como los
corporales o de nacimiento. Por otra parte, se analizarán también algunos fragmentos de los
códices en cuestión que permiten incursionar en el pensamiento religioso de los antiguos
mesoamericanos, sobre todo en lo referente a la percepción de los ejes cósmicos. Si el tiempo
lo permite, se analizarán también los llamados “protócolos para rituales”.
AND ALSO:
JUNIOR MAYA WORKSHOP | 20 feb | WEDNESDAY
BY MALOKA ASSOCIACION
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology, Gołębia 11 Street, Gothic Hall
farewell party | 24 Feb| sunday
Mundo Perdido Pub, Batorego 1 Street, 21:00
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