Project Gutenberg 2012-03-25 Public domain in the USA. 74 Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering) 1842 1921 Bowditch, Charles Pickering 07029658 Was the Beginning Day of the Maya Month Numbered Zero (or Twenty) or One? Produced by Julia Miller, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Was the Beginning Day of the Maya Month Numbered Zero (or Twenty) or One?" by Charles P. Bowditch is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This book delves into the complexities of the Maya calendar system, particularly focusing on the counting methods used to label the beginning days of their months. It examines whether the Mayans designated the initial day of the month as Day 0, 20, or 1, aiming to clarify a long-standing debate among scholars. In this detailed analysis, Bowditch reviews evidence from the Dresden Codex and various inscriptions to explore the Maya's counting methodology. He presents arguments supporting Goodman's theory that the Maya month began with Day 0 or 20, rather than Day 1. By referencing specific examples and calculations from the codex, Bowditch concludes that the evidence leans towards the understanding that the Maya designated their month beginnings as Day 0, effectively creating a framework in which days were counted from zero to nineteen within each month. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Maya calendar F1401 Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - General 41272 41281 2024-09-16T13:10:15.707669 2023-09-17T07:48:07.813031 text/html text/html 37641 2012-03-24T20:05:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 13097 2012-03-24T20:05:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 90883 2024-09-16T13:10:20.017641 application/epub+zip 89713 2024-09-16T13:10:18.103649 application/epub+zip 81288 2024-09-16T13:10:17.239650 application/epub+zip 283020 2024-09-16T13:10:21.443658 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 275568 2024-09-16T13:10:19.448655 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 88136 2022-09-18T04:44:33.958763 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34530 34326 2024-09-16T13:10:15.521665 2023-09-17T07:48:07.653039 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 34419 2012-03-24T20:05:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 12151 2012-03-24T20:05:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 34410 2012-03-24T20:05:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12132 2012-03-24T20:05:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20400 2024-09-16T13:10:21.576634 application/rdf+xml 25591 2024-09-16T13:10:17.603670 image/jpeg 4589 2024-09-16T13:10:17.420651 image/jpeg 92438 2024-09-16T13:10:15.712667 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia