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Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 03 February 2007  Page Views: 4462

Multi-periodSite Name: Cascajal
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 31.603 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: San Lorenzo  Nearest Village: Cascajal
Latitude: 17.983000N  Longitude: 94.7017W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
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Artificial Mound in Vera Cruz State, Mexico.
The village of Cascajal is the location of the discovery of the oldest known sample of writing from the Western Hemisphere. The slab on which the symbols appear has been dated at 1000 BC and is thought to have been created by the early Olmec culture.

The location given is for the town of San Lorenzo. The village of Cascajal lies a mile away.

Note: See the attached comments on the discovery of this artifact and the first tentative efforts to decipher the symbols.
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Re: Cascajal Block New Cipher by Anonymous on Tuesday, 25 March 2008
News: Olmec, Cascajal block writing, new Theory; the answer to oldest Mesoamerican symbols may have connection to astronomy star constellations and earthy tones. http://oakislandmoneypitblogspotcom.blogspot.com/

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More on the Cascajal block by bat400 on Saturday, 03 February 2007
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Submitted by coldrum.
"When workers in a Mexican quarry turned up a five-inch-thick stone slab with unusual incisions on its face seven years ago, they realized they had something unusual on their hands. They contacted local archaeologists, who kept it in relative obscurity in the Mexican state of Veracruz .

Until, that is, Professor of Anthropology Stephen Houston and his team got wind of it. He and several archaeologists from other universities traveled to Veracruz in March and quickly realized they were dealing with the Western Hemisphere’s oldest known writing sample.

By analyzing ceramic shards and clay figurines dug out of the same quarry, the scholars dated the tablet to about 900 BC, making it roughly 3,000 years old. That predates by four centuries what was then believed to be the hemisphere’s oldest writing, a comfortable lead whether, as Houston says, “it slips a few centuries this way or that way.”

The scholars believe the stone, called the Cascajal block after a village near the discovery site, was carved by a member of the Olmec civilization, which is thought to have lived in the area from 1200 to 400 BC. The slab contains sixty-two characters, twenty-eight of them unique. Some resemble vegetables, flowers, or insects, while others seem to depict geometric shapes.

For more including the first attempt to decipher the symbols, see Brown Alumni Magazine.
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'Oldest' New World writing found by bat400 on Saturday, 03 February 2007
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Originally submitted by aluta, 15 September 2006.
A team of international archaeologists agree that carving on an ancient serpentine block is probably the oldest writing found in the New World. The symbols, carved by members of the enigmatic Olmec civilization "conform to all expectations of writing," the team said. The slab has been dated to the early first millennium B.C.
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