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    The Cascajal Block is a tablet-sized slab serpentinite dated to the early first millennium BCE, incised with previously unknown characters that have been...
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  • discovery of the Cascajal block, a writing-tablet-sized block of serpentine with 62 characters unlike any yet seen in Mesoamerica. This block was discovered...
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    the writing systems that existed in other parts of the world). The Cascajal Block is perhaps the earliest-known example in the Americas of what may be...
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    and glyphs that are similar to the later Maya script. Known as the Cascajal Block, and dated between 1100 and 900 BCE, the 2006 find from a site near...
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    text or texts as substantial as the one found at La Mojarra in 1986. Cascajal block San Andrés (Mesoamerican site) Epi-Olmec culture Olmec hieroglyphs "Mask...
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  • by two scholars of Pre-Columbian art. For example, his work on the Cascajal Block and on the Wrestler was called into question. The scholars disputed...
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  • discovery of the Cascajal block, a writing-tablet-sized block of serpentine with 62 characters unlike any yet seen in Mesoamerica. This block was discovered...
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    summarized as follows: A stone slab with 3,000-year-old writing, the Cascajal Block, was discovered in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and is an example...
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    particular, the symbols on the Tuxtla Statuette, Teo Mask,[citation needed] Cascajal Block,[citation needed] and the celts (tools) in Offering 4 at La Venta. These...
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    the alphabet took hold and became widely used.[citation needed] The Cascajal Block, a stone slab with 3,000-year-old proto-writing, was discovered in the...
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