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. 2002 Dec 6;298(5600):1984-7.
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Olmec origins of Mesoamerican writing
Mary E D Pohl et al. Science. 2002.
Abstract
A cylinder seal and carved greenstone plaque bearing glyphs dating to approximately 650 B.C. have been uncovered near the Olmec center of La Venta in Tabasco, Mexico. These artifacts, which predate others containing writing, reveal that the key aspects of the Mesoamerican scripts were present in Olmec writing: the combination of pictographic and glyphic elements to represent speech; the use of the sacred 260-day calendar; and the connection between writing, the calendar, and kingship. They imply that Mesoamerican writing originated in the La Venta polity.
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Stokstad E. Stokstad E. Science. 2002 Dec 6;298(5600):1872-4. doi: 10.1126/science.298.5600.1872. Science. 2002. PMID: 12471233 No abstract available.
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