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A Cylinder Seal from Tlatilco

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David H. Kelley
David H. Kelley*
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Abstract

A cylinder seal, apparently from the Olmec occupation at Tlatilco, is inscribed with what may be the oldest writing known from Mesoamerica. The writing system is unlike any previously known and is typologically more advanced than other Mesoamerican systems.

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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 5Part1 , July 1966 , pp. 744 - 746
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1966

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