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| | THOMPSON, J. ERIC S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Thompson was, as he himself noted, of the last generation of "generalist" archeologists in the field, engaging in activities from finding and mapping new sites, excavation, study of Maya ceramics, art and iconography, heiroglyhics, some ethnology on the side, and writing books for both technical and lay audiences. |
 | | Eric S. Thompson did considerable work with the decypherment of Maya heiroglyphics, especially those related to the calendar and astronomy, as well as identifying some new nouns. |
 | | After his death, for a time some younger Maya epigraphers blamed Thompson for holding back what became a very fruitful approach to the glyphs with his forcefull articulate disagreement. |
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