Kalender-kalender Mesoamerika

Prasasti 12 dan 13 dari Monte Alban, kemungkinan berasal dari tahun 500-400 SM. Prasasti-prasasti ini mungkin merupakan kalender tertua yang telah ditemukan di Mesoamerika.^[1]

Kalender-kalender Mesoamerika adalah sistem kalender yang dirancang dan digunakan oleh kebudayaan-kebudayaan pra-Kolumbus di Mesoamerika. Selain untuk ketepatan waktu, kalender-kalender Mesoamerika juga digunakan untuk ritual sosial dan keagamaan.

Kalender sudah ada di Mesoamerika paling tidak dari sekitar tahun 500 SM. Sistem kalender Mesoamerika kini masih digunakan di wilayah dataran tinggi Guatemala^[2] serta di negara bagian Veracruz, Oaxaca, dan Chiapas di Meksiko.^[3]

Catatan kaki

1. Marcus (1992)
2. Tedlock, Barbara, Time and the Highland Maya Revised edition (1992 hlm. 1) "Scores of indigenous Guatemalan communities, principally those speaking the Mayan languages known as Ixil, Mam, Pokomchí, and Quiché, keep the 260-day cycle and (in many cases) the ancient solar cycle as well (chapter 4)."
3. Miles, Susanna W, "An Analysis of the Modern Middle American Calendars: A Study in Conservation." In Acculturation in the Americas. Edited by Sol Tax, hlm. 273. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.

Referensi

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Edmonson, Munro S. (1988). The Book of the Year: Middle American Calendrical Systems. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 0-87480-288-1. OCLC 17650412. 

Hassig, Ross (2001). Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73139-6. OCLC 44167649. 

Kettunen, Harri; Christophe Helmke (2005). Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs (PDF online publication). Wayeb and Leiden University. Diakses tanggal 2008-08-07. 

Marcus, Joyce (1992). Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09474-8. OCLC 25549355. 

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