In recent decades, the value of hieroglyphic texts to Maya archaeology has become increasingly clear. Texts provide precise chronologies and insights into the Maya worldview. They also link artifacts to individual agents and social categories and help us to understand the roles and interactions of historical individuals. Historical texts engage with other archaeological datasets in specific ways, suggesting comparative interpretations of events in the past. Even though the Maya script remains incompletely deciphered, linguistic variation within the script offers a way to explore ethno-linguistic diversity among the ancient Maya. Cultural diversity can also be explored through examination of formal aspects of the script from the perspective of paleography and graphemics in general, both of which provide evidence of scribal interactions and script evolution. Digital technologies are particularly valuable for visualizing and encoding texts with relation to time, space, and other archaeological datasets and, when combined with a social networks perspective, can be used to map other dimensions of sociocultural diversity in the Maya world.

近几十年来，象形文字文本对玛雅考古学的价值越来越明显。文本提供了精确的年表和对玛雅世界观的见解。它们还将文物与个人代理人和社会类别联系起来，并帮助我们了解历史上个人的角色和互动。历史文本以特定的方式与其他考古数据集互动，暗示了对过去事件的比较解释。尽管玛雅文字仍未完全破译，但文字中的语言差异提供了一种探索古代玛雅人种族语言多样性的方法。也可以通过从古文字学和一般字迹学的角度检查文字的形式方面来探索文化多样性，这两者都提供了抄写员互动和文字演变的证据。数字技术对于与时间、空间和其他考古数据集相关的文本进行可视化和编码特别有价值，当与社交网络视角相结合时，可用于绘制玛雅世界社会文化多样性的其他维度。