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- Sixty-two signs incised on a block of serpentine date to the first millennium B.C.E. and are thought to be the earliest writing in the New World. The Cascajal block, an artifact of the Olmec civilization, was found by road builders in a pile of debris.
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A stone slab with 3,000-year-old writing, the Cascajal Block, was discovered in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and is an example of the oldest script in the Western Hemisphere, preceding the oldest Zapotec writing dated to about 500 BCE.
Sept. 15, 2006. A stone slab bearing 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars has been found in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and archaeologists say it is an example of the...
Sep 15, 2006 · The team determined that the block dates to the early first millennium B.C.E. -- at least 400 years earlier than scholars previously thought writing existed in the Western hemisphere.
Sep 15, 2006 · Archeologists working on the gulf coast of Mexico have uncovered a 3,000-year-old stone tablet that bears the oldest writing in the Western Hemisphere and the first text unambiguously...
Sep 14, 2006 · New World’s oldest writing Sixty-two signs incised on a block of serpentine date to the first millennium B.C.E. and are thought to be the earliest writing in the New World. The Cascajal block, an artifact of the Olmec civilization, was found by road builders in a pile of debris.
Feb 11, 2007 · That's what anthropologists and archaeologists alike are asking after the discovery of the Cascajal Block, an ancient slab of writing which is thought to be the oldest known writing syst Insect, dart tip, corn, corn, throne, beetle, shucked corn.
Sep 14, 2006 · Symbols inscribed on an ancient stone slab 2,900 years ago in Mexico represent the earliest known writing in the Western Hemisphere. These images provided by the journal Science show the...
