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For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian, and wood held a vital essence, agency, and even personality To work with these materials was to coax their life into full expression and to engage in witty play Writing, too, could shift from hieroglyphic signs into vibrant glyphs that spr ISBN10: 0300196024 ISBN13: 9780300196023 Material Type: hardcover
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