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Cascajal Block and Isthmian script

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Difference between Cascajal Block and Isthmian script

Cascajal Block vs. Isthmian script

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. 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.

Similarities between Cascajal Block and Isthmian script

Cascajal Block and Isthmian script have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Common Era, Glyph, Maya script, Mesoamerican writing systems, Michael D. Coe, San Andrés (Mesoamerican site), Stephen D. Houston.

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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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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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 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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San Andrés (Mesoamerican site)

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

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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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Cascajal Block and Isthmian script Comparison

Cascajal Block has 54 relations, while Isthmian script has 23. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 9.09% = 7 / (54 + 23).

References

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