Publication Date:
2006-09-16
Description:
A block with a hitherto unknown system of writing has been found in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico. Stylistic and other dating of the block places it in the early first millennium before the common era, the oldest writing in the New World, with features that firmly assign this pivotal development to the Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rodriguez Martinez, Ma del Carmen -- Ortiz Ceballos, Ponciano -- Coe, Michael D -- Diehl, Richard A -- Houston, Stephen D -- Taube, Karl A -- Delgado Calderon, Alfredo -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Sep 15;313(5793):1610-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centro del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Benito Juarez Numero 425-431, Veracruz, Mexico.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16973873" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Archaeology
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Civilization/*history
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*Culture
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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Mexico
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Writing/*history
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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