Maya hieroglyph expert ____________________, the youngest ever recipient of the MacArthur genius award, discovered that the language was extremely complex with multiple phonetic substitutions spelling exactly the same word in slightly different ways.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s)


Answer: David Stuart

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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