Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. The Americas
6. Pre-Columbian (American)
7. [Pre-Columbian Middle American styles and periods]
8. Mesoamerican
9. [Mesoamerican regional styles and periods]
10. [Maya area styles and periods]
11. Maya area pottery styles

Anotations

Scope note:

Style of Maya pottery painting in which figures and objects are drawn in black on a cream slip in a way suggesting their affiliation with contemporaneous, now lost, painted manuscripts; exemplified by a group of cylindrical vessels. The term is also used for wall paintings in this style.