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Isthmian script

Index Isthmian script

The Isthmian script is a very early Mesoamerican writing system in use in the area of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec from perhaps 500 BCE to 500 CE, although there is disagreement on these dates. [1]

23 relations: Cascajal Block, Cerro de las Mesas, Chiapa de Corzo (Mesoamerican site), Common Era, Epi-Olmec culture, Glyph, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, La Mojarra Stela 1, List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003, Logogram, Maya script, Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, Mesoamerican writing systems, Michael D. Coe, Morpheme, San Andrés (Mesoamerican site), Stele, Stephen D. Houston, Syllabary, Teotihuacan, Tuxtla Statuette, W. Andrew Robinson, Zoque languages.

Cascajal Block

The Cascajal Block is a tablet-sized writing slab in Mexico, made of serpentinite, which has been dated to the early first millennium BCE, incised with hitherto unknown characters that may represent the earliest writing system in the New World.

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Cerro de las Mesas

Cerro de las Mesas, meaning "hill of the altars" in Spanish, is an archaeological site in the Mexican state of Veracruz, in the Mixtequilla area of the Papaloapan River basin.

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Chiapa de Corzo (Mesoamerican site)

Chiapa de Corzo (Spanish) is an archaeological site of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica located near the small town Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas.

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Common Era

Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.

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Epi-Olmec culture

The Epi-Olmec culture was a cultural area in the central region of the present-day Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Glyph

In typography, a glyph is an elemental symbol within an agreed set of symbols, intended to represent a readable character for the purposes of writing.

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Isthmus of Tehuantepec

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an isthmus in Mexico.

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La Mojarra Stela 1

La Mojarra Stela 1 is a Mesoamerican carved monument (stela) dating from 156 CE (2nd century CE).

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003.

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Logogram

In written language, a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase.

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Maya script

Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs, was the writing system of the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica and is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered.

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Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, vigesimal (base-20) and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya.

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Mesoamerican writing systems

Mesoamerica, along with Mesopotamia and China, is among the three known places in the world where writing has developed independently.

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Michael D. Coe

Michael D. Coe (born 1929) is an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher and author.

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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.

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San Andrés (Mesoamerican site)

San Andrés is an Olmec archaeological site in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco.

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Stele

A steleAnglicized plural steles; Greek plural stelai, from Greek στήλη, stēlē.

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Stephen D. Houston

Stephen Douglas Houston (born November 11, 1958) is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar, who is particularly renowned for his research into the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

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Syllabary

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.

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Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan, (in Spanish: Teotihuacán), is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico northeast of modern-day Mexico City, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas.

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Tuxtla Statuette

The Tuxtla Statuette is a small 6.3 inch (16 cm) rounded greenstone figurine, carved to resemble a squat, bullet-shaped human with a duck-like bill and wings.

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W. Andrew Robinson

(William) Andrew Coulthard Robinson (born 14.03.1957) is a British author and former newspaper editor.

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Zoque languages

The Zoque languages form a primary branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico.

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Redirects here:

Epi-Olmec language, Epi-Olmec script, Epi-olmec script, ISO 639:xep, La Mojarra script.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmian_script

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