Linda Schele
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American mesoamericanist
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Linda Schele's Degrees
- PhD Art History University of Texas at Austin
- Masters Art History University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelors Art University of Cincinnati
Why Is Linda Schele Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Linda Schele was an American Mesoamerican archaeologist who was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography. She played an invaluable role in the decipherment of much of the Maya hieroglyphs. She produced a massive volume of drawings of stelae and inscriptions, which, following her wishes, are free for use to scholars. In 1978, she founded the annual Maya Meetings at The University of Texas at Austin.
Linda Schele's Published Works
Published Works
- A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (1990) (469)
- The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (1986) (447)
- Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path (1995) (388)
- The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs (1998) (222)
- Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period (1994) (211)
- Kingship in the Late Preclassic Maya Lowlands: The Instruments and Places of Ritual Power (1988) (174)
- Investigations of a Classic Maya Council House at Copán, Honduras (1992) (63)
- The Blood of Kings (1986) (48)
- The Mirror, the Rabbit, and the Bundle: Accession Expressions from the Classic Maya Inscriptions (1983) (34)
- Maya glyphs, the verbs (1982) (33)
- The Founders of Lineages at Copan and other Maya Sites (1992) (28)
- Telling About the Maya. (Book Reviews: A Forest of Kings. The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya.; Scribes, Warriors and Kings. The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya.) (1992) (15)
- The bodega of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico (1979) (14)
- Kuy, the owl of omen and war (1994) (6)
- The Blood Of Kings, A New Interpretation Of Maya Art (1986) (5)
- Notes on the Chronology of Piedras Negras Stela 12 (1994) (4)
- The Lunar Series in Classic Maya Inscriptions: New Observation and Interpretations (1992) (4)
- Tzuk in the Classic Maya Inscriptions (1991) (4)
- Some Revisions to Tikal's Dynasty of Kings (1994) (3)
- Naranjo Altar 1 and Rituals of Death and Burials (1993) (3)
- Untying the Headband (1990) (3)
- Tikal Altar 5 (1994) (3)
- A Substitution Pattern in Curl-Snout's Name (1991) (3)
- El Zapote and the Dynasty of Tikal (1992) (3)
- Mayamania: "The Blood of Kings" in Retrospect@@@The Blood of Kings: Ritual and Dynasty in Maya Art (1988) (2)
- The Nal Suffix at Palenque and Elsewhere (1990) (1)
- Curl-Snout Under Scrutiny, Again (1991) (1)
- Pi as "Bundle" (1993) (1)
- Redating the Hauberg Stela (1990) (1)
- A War at Palenque during the Reign of Ah-K'an (1991) (1)
- The Palenque War Panel: Commentary on the Inscription (1990) (0)
- A Proposed Decipherment for a Portion of Resbalon Stair 1 (1990) (0)
- New Observations on the Oval Palace Tablet Palenque (1994) (0)
- Ba as "First" in Classic Period Titles (1990) (0)
- New Readings of Glyphs for the Month Kumk'u and their Implications (1991) (0)
- Some Observations on the War Expressions at Tikal (1991) (0)
- Further Adventures with T128 ch'a (1991) (0)
- The Helmet of the Chakte (1994) (0)
- History, writing, and image in Maya art (1996) (0)
- A Proposed Reading for the "Penis-Perforation" Glyph (1991) (0)
- Creation and the Ritual of the Bakabs (1993) (0)
- The Last Lords of Seibal (1994) (0)
- A Proposed Name for Rio Azul and a Glyph for "Water" (1991) (0)
- New observations on the Loltun relief (1996) (0)
- Some New Ideas about the T713/757 "Accession" Phrases (1991) (0)
- An Alternative Reading for the Sky-Penis Title (1995) (0)
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