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Another Maya Falsification*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

César Lizardi Ramos
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Abstract

The claims of antiquity and authenticity made for the Manuscrito pictorico de la Cultura Maya sobre piel de mamifero are false. It contains many elements and scenes copied from a variety of sources, Mixtec, Aztec, Teotihuacan, as well as Maya. Numerals are used in meaningless fashion; many copied items are obviously misunderstood.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , July 1959, pp. 120 - 121
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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Footnotes

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The Editor acknowledges the assistance of William R. Holland in preparing this translation from the Spanish.

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