Narrative Threads - University of Texas Press. Browse the book with Google Preview » In 1922, the founder of modern Mesoamerican iconographic research, Eduard Seler, died in Berlin.
Although a number of important advances in the study of Maya hieroglyphic writing had already been accomplished, the field was still in its infancy. A year later, in 1923, L. Leland Locke published The Ancient Quipu or Peruvian Knot Record, in which he presented the basic understanding of khipu maintained to the present. Despite an early precociousness, however, the study of khipu has lagged far behind the decipherment of Maya glyphs. First City in the New World? First City in the New World?