Cascajal Block
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cascajal-block-166-2970073
title:
Cascajal Block
text:
The Cascajal Block is a tablet-sized slab serpentinite dated to the early first millennium BCE, incised with previously unknown characters that have been claimed to represent the earliest writing system in the New World. Archaeologist Stephen D. Houston of Brown University said that this discovery helps to "link the Olmec civilization to literacy, document an unsuspected writing system, and reveal a new complexity to [the Olmec] civilization."
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1st millennium BCE slab bearing Olmec inscriptions
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascajal_Block
date created:
2006-09-15T21:53:27Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T18:03:25Z
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13
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