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J. Eric S. Thompson's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was a leading English Mesoamerican archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher. While working in the United States, he dominated Maya studies and particularly the study of the Maya script until well into the 1960s.

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J. Eric S. Thompson's Published Works

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Maya history and religion (1971) (297)
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction (1952) (147)
Ethnology of the Mayas of southern and central British Honduras (143)
The rise and fall of Maya civilization (1954) (136)
A catalog of the Maya hieroglyphs (1962) (123)
Excavations at San Jose, British Honduras (1939) (74)
Archaeological investigations in the southern Cayo district, British Honduras (1931) (72)
Thomas Gage's Travels in the New World (1981) (55)
An archaeological reconnaissance in the Cotzumalhuapa region, Escuintla, Guatemala (1948) (40)
Las Monjas : a major pre-Mexican architectural complex at Chichén Itzá (1977) (26)
A preliminary study of the ruins of Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico (1932) (19)
A correlation of the Mayan and European calendars (17)
The high priest's grave, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico; a manuscript / by Edward H. Thompson. Prepared for publication, with notes and introduction by J. Eric Thompson -- (1938) (11)
Notes on middle American archaeology and ethnology (1969) (9)
The History of the Maya: from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1931) (9)
The fish as a Maya symbol for counting and further discussion of directional glyphs (1944) (8)
The solar year of the Mayas at Quirigua, Guatemala (1931) (6)
The high priest's grave, (1938) (4)
A Commentary on the Dresden Codex: A Maya Hieroglyphic Book (1974) (4)
Archaeology Of South America (1936) (3)
The civilization of the Mayas / by J. Eric Thompson, Assistant Curator of Mexican and South American Archaeology. (0)
Ancient Maya Relief Sculpture (1968) (0)
Archaeology of South America / by J. Eric Thompson, Division of Historical Research, Carnegie Institute of Washington. Formerly Assistant Curator of Central and South American Archaeology, Field Museum. 12 plates, 18 text figures, (1936) (0)

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University of Pennsylvania