Oldest writing in the new world

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5793, 2006, Pages 1610-1614

  Rodríguez Martínez, Ma Del Carmen ^a   Ceballos, Ponciano Ortíz ^b   Coe, Michael D ^c   Diehl, Richard A ^d   Houston, Stephen D ^e   Taube, Karl A ^f   Caldéron, Alfredo Delgado ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^c 24E Ten Hoor Hall ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

OLMEC CIVILIZATION;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

CIVILIZATION; NEW WORLD ORDER;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CIVILIZATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; IMAGERY; MATERIALS; MEXICO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRITING;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CIVILIZATION; CULTURE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MEXICO; WRITING;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; VERACRUZ;

EID: 33748808694     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131492     Document Type: Article

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