Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This is a symposium in honor of John Justeson’s career as a friend, scholar, teacher, and mentor. John has published extensively on the history and structure of Mesoamerican art and writing traditions, including Olmec, Epi-Olmec, Mayan, and Zapotec, as well as the calendrical and astronomical reckoning systems. Together with Terrence Kaufman he codirected a major project on the linguistic documentation of the languages of Mesoamerica leading to many PhD dissertations, grammars, and dictionaries. Topics for the symposium will include ways of understanding how information is processed and organized in spoken and written languages as well as material culture, especially in Mesoamerica, but also the Near East, the Mediterranean, and India/Pakistan.
Other Keywords
Iconography and epigraphy •
Maya: Classic •
Digital Archaeology: 3D Modeling •
Iconography and Art •
Chronology •
Dating Techniques •
Cultural Transmission •
Olmec •
Epi-Olmec •
Social and Political Organization
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Yucatan (State / Territory) •
Belize (Country) •
Corozal (State / Territory) •
Quintana Roo (State / Territory) •
Campeche (State / Territory) •
Puebla (State / Territory) •
Tlaxcala (State / Territory) •
Veracruz (State / Territory)
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Contextualizing the “Tuxtla” Statuette: Epi-Olmec Writing and Representation in Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico and Its Hinterland (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is significant as one of 12 objects with an Epi-Olmec text, and the first to be described in the scholarly literature. For over a century it was misidentified as having been recovered from the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, near the town of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz. The author...
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Did the Maya Care about the Precession of the Equinox? (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Updating progress on a collaborative project with the honoree, John Justeson, regardng the study of the use of Maya long numbers in the inscriptions.
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Envisioning the Iconographic and Epigraphic Corpus of Cerro de las Mesas (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we honor John Justeson’s contributions to the study of Mesoamerican writing and symbolic systems by revisiting the Epi-Olmec corpus of Classic period Cerro de las Mesas (300–900 CE). Four of the stelae from this site contain examples of the Epi-Olmec script, and their accompanying iconographic programs make...
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Mayan Spelling Conventions: Late Preclassic through Late Classic (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper deals with the topic that inspired me to study with John Justeson: it traces the major spelling practices of Mayan writing from the Late Preclassic through the Late Classic periods. It employs the evidence from Late Preclassic and Early Classic inscriptions, some of which I have documented myself, as well as the...
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Metaphor in Precolumbian Mesoamerica: In Honor of John Justeson (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. John Justeson is well-known for contributions to the documentation of Mesoamerican indigenous languages and writing systems. Justeson’s work on metaphor has received less attention, given that work on metaphor in precolumbian Mesoamerica is just now gaining traction. Justeson’s work stands out as being the first to adopt a...
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Visualizing Speech: Unfolding the Narrative of the Papaloapan Stela (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we examine the complex iconography of the Papaloapan Stela (originally labeled by Stirling as Cerro de las Mesas Stela 2) with a particular focus on the narrative integrity of the tableaux, the depiction of speech, and the relationship between the visualization of language and possible glyphic texts. Our...
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Why Is There Math in My Archaeology? The Modern Foundations of Quantitative Archaeology Written Decades Too Soon (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Coffee, Clever T-Shirts, and Papers in Honor of John S. Justeson" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fifty years ago, what was arguably the most important paper ever written for modern work in quantitative archaeology was published in “American Antiquity.” Unfortunately for its author, and generations of archaeologists, few took notice of it at the time. With few citations, more than half of which have occurred in just...