Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Avenirova Proskouriakoff (Tomsk, Russia, January 23rd 1909 - the United States August 30th 1985) was a epigraphist, archeologist and Ethnologue, specialized in the study of the Maya Civilization.

Born in Siberia with Tomsk, she emigrates with the the United States in her childhood in 1916 when the Tsar Nicolas II sends his father chemist to supervise the delivery of weapons for the effort of Russian war. Architect of formation, it will work for the account of Linton Satterthwaite and for the Musée of the Université of Pennsylvania on the Maya site of Piedras Negras. It initiates being studied of the Maya writing and contributes there to its deciphering. It is employed by Sylvanus Morley to work with the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1939.

It is particularly known for its Dessin S artistic representing of the reconstitutions of sites and Maya monuments.

Its principal discovery is to identify the inscriptions on the steles and monuments like historical, which treats birth, the accession with the throne and death of the Maya dirigents. It is considered that this fact allowed an major advance in the deciphering of the Hiéroglyphe S Maya.

Works

  • Album off Maya Structures , Tatiana Proskouriakoff, University off Oklahoma Close (1977), ISBN 0-80611-351-0
  • Study off Classic Maya Sculpture , Tatiana Proskouriakoff, AMS Close Inc. (1978), ISBN 0-40416-275-4
  • Jades from the Cenote off Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan , Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Harvard University Close, ISBN 0-87365-682-2
  • Maya History , Tatiana Proskouriakoff & Rosemary A. Joyce, University off Texas Close (1993), ISBN 0-29275-085-4

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Biography off Tatiana Proskouriakoff on the site of the University of State of the Minnesota
  • Morley hires Tatiana Proskouriakoff ()
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