Posted on 09/17/2006 12:51:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Inscriptions on the seal and plaque display important elements of later scripts employed by civilizations in Mexico and Central America, the researchers say. These include a mix of language-related symbols and drawings, as well as references to a sacred calendar and specific kings. According to the scientists, the seal carries two sets of symbols emanating from the beak of a bird to show that the signs represent spoken words. Pohl and her coworkers interpret these hieroglyphics as representing the name "King 3 Ajaw." ...The researchers couldn't translate the two complete hieroglyphic signs and two possible partial ones on the plaque fragments... Pohl's position receives partial support from John Justeson of the State University of New York at Albany and Terrence Kaufman of the University of Pittsburgh. At least one of the San Andrés plaquesbut not the sealbears symbols that were part of a writing system, Justeson and Kaufman assert in a joint e-mail to Science News. This finding reinforces earlier suggestions that a stone monument at another Olmec site contains writing that dates to about 500 B.C., they hold. Olmec researcher Michael D. Coe of Yale University regards the new finds as "an early kind of writing." However, it will take more discoveries to confirm that the symbols represented speech, he says.
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TELLTALE SIGNS. Examples of newly discovered Olmec inscriptions appear on jade plaque fragments and this colored imprint from a cylindrical seal. Pohl, K. Pope, and C. von Nagy
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Oldest writing in the New World discovered
NewScientist.com | 14 September 2006 | Jeff Hecht
Posted on 09/14/2006 4:09:26 PM EDT by flevit
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bird bump.
That wings a bell.
The Secret Language of Birds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIs0vtujiPk
Capon sending those interesting links.
Did you call me a capon? LOL
You know about the language of birds, right? How much of it is a bunch of new agey hokum & how much of it was earlier human beliefs, I've no idea. But, since the list is *G*GG...
http://www.innerlight.org.uk/journals/Vol24No4/langbird.htm
http://www.thorsons.com/resources/extracts/ex_Secret_language_birds_nozedar.pdf#search=%22language%20of%20birds%22
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