Reconstructing the Codex Colombino-Becker
Author(s): Lee Ann Monaghan; John Pohl; Manuel Hermann; John Monaghan
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 2: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Precolumbian manuscripts provide a view of indigenous life that is largely unmediated by Spanish colonialism. The Colombino-Becker is one of the masterpieces of the Mixtec Codices, but poor preservation, missing pages, and an effort to make the manuscript more palatable in a Christian context by erasing not only precolumbian rituals but also names and headdresses have limited the ease of understanding of what is written. A team, including John Pohl, has been working on the reconstruction of the manuscript. In this paper we will present two of the reconstructed pages and discuss the methods used to make the manuscript more accessible.
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Reconstructing the Codex Colombino-Becker. Lee Ann Monaghan, John Pohl, Manuel Hermann, John Monaghan. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 498566)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Oaxaca or Southern Highlands
Spatial Coverage
min long: -98.679; min lat: 15.496 ; max long: -94.724; max lat: 18.271 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 39757.0