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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 ...
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 ...
If the authenticity and date can be verified, this will prove to be the earliest writing yet found in Mesoamerica. The symbols on the Cascajal block are unlike those of any other writing system in Mesoamerica, such as in Mayan languages or Isthmian, another extinct Mesoamerican script. The Cascajal block is also unusual because the symbols ...
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]
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.
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 is for articles concerning the scripts, orthographies, inscriptions, texts, and other aspects of writing relating to Mesoamerica The main article for this category is Mesoamerican literature .