| Literature DB >> 16973873 |
Ma del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez1, Ponciano Ortíz Ceballos, Michael D Coe, Richard A Diehl, Stephen D Houston, Karl A Taube, Alfredo Delgado Calderón.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16973873 DOI： 10.1126/science.1131492
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728