INDEX 



Page 



Abbreviation in dating, use 222, 252 



Addition, method 149 



Adultery, punishment 9-10 



Aguilar, S. de, on Maya records 36 



Ahholpop (official), duties 13 



Ahkulel (deputy-chief), powers 13 



Ahpuch (god), nature 17 



Alphabet, nonexistence 27 



Amusements, nature 10 



Arabic system of numbers, Maya parallel . . 87, 96 



Architecture, development 5 



Arithmetic, system 87-155 



Ascending series, texts recording 276-278 



Astronomical computations— 



accuracy 32 



in codices 31-32,276-278 



Aztec— 



calendar 58-59 



ikomomatic hieroglyphics 29 



rulership succession 16 



Backward sign— 



glyph 137 



use 137, 268 



Bakhalal (city), founding 4 



Bar, numerical value 87-88 



Bab and dot numerals— 



antiquity 102-103 



examples, plates showing 157, 



167,170,176,178,179 

 form and nature 87-95 



Batab (chief), powers. 13 



Bibliography xv-xvi 



Bowditch, C. p.— 



cited 2, 45,65, 117, 134,203 



on dating system S2-&3, 214-215, 272 



on hieroglyphics 30, 33, 71 



on Supplementary Series 152 



works vii-viii 



Brinton, Dr. D. G.— 



error by 82 



on hieroglyphics 3, 23, 27-28, 30, 33 



on numerical system 91 



Calendar— 



harmonization 44,215 



starting point 41-43, 60-62, 113-114 



subdivisions 37-86 



See aZ«o Calendar Round; Chronology; 

 Dating; Long Count. 



Calendar Round— 



explanation 51-59 



glyph 59 



Calendar-round dating- 



Page 

 240-245 



limitations 76 



Chakanputan (city), founding and destruc- 

 tion 4 



Chichen Itza (city)— 



history 3,4,5, 202-203 



Temple of the Initial Series, lintel, inter- 

 pretation 199 



Chilan balam— 



books of 3 



chronology based on 2 



Chronology— 



correlation 2 



duration 222 



startmg point. . . 60-62, 113-114, 124-125, 147-148 

 See also Calendar. 

 Cities, southern— 



occupancy of, diagram showing 15 



rise and fall of 2-5 



Civilization, rise and fall 1-7 



Closing sign of Supplementary Series, 



glyph 152-153, 170 



Closing signs. See Ending signs. 



Clothing, character 7-8 



CocoM FAMILY, tyranny 5-6, 12 



Codex Peresianus, tonalamatls named in . . 265 



Codex Tro-Cortesianus, texts 262-265 



Codices— 



astronomical character 31-32, 276-278 



character in general 31, 252 



colored glyphs used in 91, 251 



dates of 203 



day signs in 39 



errors 270-271, 274 



examples from, interpretation 251-278 



glyphs for twenty (20) used in 92, 130 



historical nature 32-33, 35-36 



Initial-series dating in 266 



examples 266-273 



interpretation 31-33, 254-278 



numeration glyphs used in 103-104, 129-134 



order of readmg 22, 133, 135, 137, 252-253 



tonalamatls in 251-266 



zero glyph used in 94 



Coefficients, numerical. See Numerical 

 coefficients. 



CoGOLLUDO, C. L., on dating system 34,84 



Colored glyphs, use of, in codices 91,251 



Commerce, customs 9 



Computation, possibility of errors in 154-155 



Confederation, formation and disruption . . 4-5 



279 



