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Another candidate for earliest writing system in Mesoamerica is the writing system of the Zapotec culture. Rising in the late Pre-Classic era after the decline of the Olmec civilization, the Zapotecs of present-day Oaxaca built an empire around Monte Albán. On a few monuments at this archaeological site, archaeologists have found extended text ...
The traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from around the mid-1st millennium BCE. Many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica are known to have been literate societies, who produced a number of Mesoamerican writing systems of ...
"If writing is (1) a graphic representation of language, (2) detached from the body of its referent, and (3) disposed into linear sequences that can theoretically expand into greater degrees of syntactic complexity, then writing first appears in Mesoamerica in the century between 600 and 500 BC, as attested on La Venta Monument 13', [12] the so ...
During the 19th century, the word 'codex' became popular to designate any pictorial manuscript in the Mesoamerican tradition. In reality, pre-Columbian manuscripts are, strictly speaking, not codices, since the strict librarian usage of the word denotes manuscript books made of vellum, papyrus and other materials besides paper, that have been sewn on one side. [1]
World Digital Library, UNESCO-sponsored site with some digital reproductions incl Mesoamerican docs & artefacts (note includes one fake Maya MS., "How the Indians Did Their Paintings") Oxford DNB, Dictionary of National Biography UK; The Writing Center, Yale University, Using Sources. One of the better citation/referencing guidelines around
This category contains articles relating to the writing systems (and proto-writing) developed by the historical cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
This category contains articles on (non-fiction) books, monographs, monographic series, etc, that are concerned with some aspect of the study of Mesoamerican cultures. Fields of scholarship addressed in such works include history, historiography, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, ethnology, bibliography, art history, literature, and so on.
Throughout the history of Mesoamerica, an unknown number of languages and language families became extinct and left behind no evidence of their existence. What is known about the pre-Columbian history of the Mesoamerican languages is what can be surmised from linguistic, archeological and ethnohistorical evidence. Often, hypotheses concerning ...