Re: Ancient Mexican city raises questions about Mesoamerica's Mother Culture
- From: David <pchristainsen@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:44:23 -0000
On Oct 19, 2:01 am, Tom McDonald <kilt...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 18, 11:12 am, Russell Sheptak <nos...@xxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1192469423.215436.105...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/travel/stories/MYSA20071014.05L.Ta....
337.html
The article is full of factual mistakes, such as the following:
"It is believed to have been created around 600 B.C. ? 2,000 years
before what was previously the oldest discovered calendar in the
Americas, the Olmec Calendar, which dates to A.D. 1400."
I read the article twice, and that paragraph three or four times. And
each time, I mentally corrected 'Olmec' to 'Aztec'!
Of course, even reading it as 'Aztec' would make the sentence
laughably wrong. I'm not even sure that 600 BCE would make this the
earliest known version of a Mesoamerican calendar. ISTM that there are
earlier indications of it than that; but I don't want to do the
digging right now to check it out.
so I'd ignore it. Its the Aztec version of the mesoamerican calendar
that might date to 1400 AD if I'm generous to the article's author. 600
B.C is right for Olmec.
IIRC, examples of Olmec writing go back perhaps another several
centuries. If correct, I wonder whether there are earlier calendar
indications. I'd almost think there must be.
Introduction to Archaeology Fall 2006
http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/5443EE64-8D21-4DC6-B746-65E3F5162194/0/olmec.pdf
"Pohl, M.E.D., K.O. Pope, C. von Nagy 2002 Olmec Origins of
Mesoamerican Writing. Science 298:1984-87.
Abstract: A cylinder seal and carved greenstone plaque bearing
glyphs dating to 650 B.C. have been uncovered near the Olmec
center of La Venta in Tabasco, Mexico. These artifacts, which
predate others containing writing, reveal that the key aspects
of the Mesoamerican scripts were present in Olmec writing: the
combination of pictographic and glyphic elements to represent
speech; the use of the sacred 260-day calendar; and the connection
between writing, the calendar, and kingship. They imply that
Mesoamerican writing originated in the La Venta polity."
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