[balrog666]

The finding suggests that New World people developed writing some 400 years before their contemporaries in the Western hemisphere.

Huh? Plenty of ancient civilizations had writing.

Who are they counting/not-counting here? And for what purpose?

[muawiyah]

This is the OLDEST in the New World. That's its relevance.

It's also older than most other writing methods anyway.

I spent several hours last evening and today trying to figure out what it says.

Quite an interesting read ~ an Evo/Creo thread in fact.