Maya murals. Reproduction of accession scene, West Wall, San Bartolo Mural Building. The standing figure to the left offers a crown and headdress to a seated lord on a painted, wooden scaffold. The undeciphered glyphs at the center may refer to this act.
Science 3 March 2006
Early Maya Writing at San Bartolo, Guatemala
William A. Saturno,1* David Stuart,2 Boris Beltrán3
The ruins of San Bartolo, Guatemala, contain a sample of Maya hieroglyphic writing dating to the Late Preclassic period (400 B.C. to 200 A.D.). The writing appears on preserved painted walls and plaster fragments buried within the pyramidal structure known as "Las Pinturas," which was constructed in discrete phases over several centuries. Samples of carbonized wood that are closely associated with the writing have calibrated radiocarbon dates of 200 to 300 B.C. This early Maya writing implies that a developed Maya writing system was in use centuries earlier than previously thought, approximating a time when we see the earliest scripts elsewhere in Mesoamerica.
1 Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA.
2 Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
3 Escuela de Historia, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
- Re: 公元前 200- 年的玛雅文字(目前所见最早)posted on 03/07/2006
now task to do is need some doctors to decipher them. :)
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