Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests examines evidence for cultural interchange among the intelligensia in postclassic Mesoamerica, specifically focused on the northern Maya lowlands & the central Mexican highlands. The volume introduces new data & interpretative frameworks.

This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, 40 percent of which are unique to these painted manuscripts, and discuss current and past interpretations of these graphemes.

"The New Catalog" uses an original coding system developed for the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project. The new three-digit codes group the graphemes according to their visual, rather than functional, characteristics to allow...