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The oldest writing in the Americas.
Also known as: Zapotec writing
The script used in Oaxaca from around the sixth century BCE, the earliest attested writing system in Mesoamerica.
Records names, dates and events on Zapotec monuments in Oaxaca.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The earliest writing attested in the Americas and only partly read: the calendrical portions can be interpreted with confidence and the rest cannot, so the corpus is legible in exactly the places where it says least.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Glyph blocks combining calendrical signs, name signs and figures, carved on stone monuments in columns.