A Cylinder Seal from Tlatilco

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jul 1966 English Publisher:Cambridge University Press (CUP)Journal:American Antiquity, volume 31, pages 744-746 (issn: 0002-7316, eissn: 2325-5064,

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Authors: David H. Kelley;

doi: 10.2307/2694503

A Cylinder Seal from Tlatilco

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AbstractA 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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