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Scripted Stone: Ancient Block May Bear Americas' Oldest Writing, Science News
 









Excerpts:     WRITER'S BLOCK. Signs such as these (inset), inscribed on a slab
from southern Mexico, may represent the earliest known writing in the Americas.
Houston     Road builders in southern Mexico discovered a script-covered block
of stone among the rubble in a gravel quarry in 1999. A research team has now
announced that the marks on the slab represent the oldest writing yet discovered
in the Americas.  The quarry where the script was found abuts an archaeological
site, near Veracruz, in what was the heartland of the ancient Olmec
civilization. The imagery used in the writing indicates that the artifact, known
as the Cascajal block, displays an early form of Olmec writing dating to nearly
3,000 years ago, says Stephen D. Houston of Brown University in Providence, R.I.
Source: Scripted Stone: Ancient Block May Bear Americas' Oldest Writing[
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060916/fob2.asp ], Bruce Bower, Science
News, 06/09/16
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