Project Gutenberg 2012-03-25 Public domain in the USA. 186 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.) Reading ease score: 75.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Maya calendar F1401 Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - General Category: History - Ancient Category: Archaeology & Anthropology 41403 2025-06-16T05:09:02.512649 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 124867 2025-06-16T05:09:08.623609 application/epub+zip 123459 2025-06-16T05:09:06.267650 application/epub+zip 69581 2025-06-16T05:09:04.969623 application/epub+zip 328161 2025-06-16T05:09:10.240643 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 320723 2025-06-16T05:09:07.806611 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 88136 2022-09-18T04:44:33.958763 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34530 2025-06-16T05:09:02.258719 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 20515 2025-06-16T05:09:10.383615 application/rdf+xml 25727 2025-06-16T05:09:05.535648 image/jpeg 4611 2025-06-16T05:09:05.248647 image/jpeg 124026 2025-06-16T05:09:02.517699 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia