Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (31 December 1898 – 9 September 1975) was a leading English Mesoamerican archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher. While working in the United States, he dominated Maya studies and particularly the study of the Maya script until well into the 1960s. (From Wikipedia)
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Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975: Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #602; 1955), also by Karl Ruppert and Tatiana Proskouriakoff (page images at HathiTrust)- Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975: Excavations at San Jose, British Honduras (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #506, 1939), contrib. by Anna Osler Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975: Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Introduction (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #589; 1950) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975: A Preliminary Study of the Ruins of Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #424, 1932), also by H. E. D. Pollock and Jean Charlot (page images at HathiTrust)
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Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975: Archaeological investigations in the southern Cayo district, British Honduras (Chicago, 1931) (page images at HathiTrust)- Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975: The civilization of the Mayas (Field Museum of Natural History, 1942) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975: A new method of deciphering Yucatecan dates with special reference to Chichen Itza (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1937) (page images at HathiTrust)
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