Re: Earliest Known New World Writing Discovered.


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| prd wrote:
| > http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2442135&ad=homepage
| >
| > "
| > We are dealing with the first, clear evidence of writing in the New
World,"
| > said Stephen Houston, a Brown University anthropologist. Houston and his
U.S.
| > and Mexican colleagues detail the tablet's discovery and analysis in a
study
| > appearing this week in the journal Science.
| > "
| >
| > "
| > Based on other materials, including pottery sherds, believed found with
the
| > slab, team concluded it is roughly 2,900 years old. Isolated signs
similar to
| > those inscribed on the block also appear on even older figurines found
| > elsewhere in Mexico.
| > "
|
| Certainly interesting, but there is no properly established
| archaeological context, and I have to wonder about a date of "roughly
| 2,900 years old" which is based on materials "believed found with the
| slab".

There's something Kensington Rune Stone sounding about that scenario.

Dyl.

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