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‘Puzzling Pictograms’Download below an activity sheet jointly produced by Mexicolore and the British Museum |
Ideas for PICTOGRAMS...
We cannot do justice to Aztec writing systems, here or anywhere. They’re FAR more sophisticated and generally natty than most people think. But we have to start somewhere; so our researcher Julia Flood has produced some introductory resource material... For now, here are jpegs of the pages Julia has designed, that you can print out. As soon as we can we’ll convert the material into a regular website page, with a downloadable PDF version...
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Page 1 (Click on image to enlarge) |
Sources:-
La Matrícula de Tributos, edición especial, Arqueología Mexicana, Mexico City
Codex Borbonicus and Codex Mendoza
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Page 2 (Click on image to enlarge) |
What you CAN download here is the latest version, in full colour, of our first Activity Sheet, which is on Aztec glyphs or pictograms...
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Page 3 (Click on image to enlarge) |
... and (2009) an activity sheet on Moctezuma and Aztec pictograms as featured in remus the magazine for the Young Friends of the British Museum.
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Page 4 (Click on image to enlarge) |
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Our Activity Sheet 1 (colour version) on Aztec pictograms (Click on image to enlarge) |
Download our Activity Sheet 1 on glyphs (colour version)
Download the British Museum/Mexicolore ‘Puzzling Pictograms’ sheet