The following sentences describe the historical process of deciphering the Maya glyphs. Arrange the sentences in the correct chronological and logical sequence to form a coherent narrative.
- 1Early European researchers, believing the writing system was purely symbolic or pictographic, struggled to make substantial progress in decoding the complex inscriptions.
- 2In the 1950s, Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov proposed that the glyphs were logo-syllabic, representing phonetic syllables in addition to whole words.
- 3Building on the phonetic approach, Tatiana Proskouriakoff demonstrated that the inscriptions recorded the historical reigns of actual Maya rulers, shifting the scholarly consensus away from purely calendrical interpretations.
- 4By the late twentieth century, epigraphers synthesized these phonetic and historical insights to successfully decode the vast majority of the surviving Maya texts.
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The correct order of the sentences is: first, the initial struggle by early researchers; second, Yuri Knorozov's phonetic proposal in the 1950s; third, Tatiana Proskouriakoff's demonstration of historical content building on that phonetic approach; and finally, the late twentieth-century synthesis that decoded most texts.
The correct narrative flows from the initial research struggles, to the introduction of the phonetic hypothesis in the 1950s, followed by historical discoveries that built on that hypothesis, and culminating in the near-total decipherment of the script by the late twentieth century.
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