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Writing system of Oaxaca

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  • système d'écriture mésoaméricain (fr)
  • mesoamerikanisches Schriftsystem (de)
  • writing system of Oaxaca (en)
  • conjunto inscripciones escritas en zapoteco epigráfico (es)
  • メソアメリカの文字 (ja)
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  • Whittaker (en)
  • Urcid (en)
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  • Zapotec writing relief in the Site Museum of Monte Albán. Oaxaca, Mexico (en)
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  • Top to bottom (en)
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  • Oaxaca de Juárez, Monte Albán 05.jpg (en)
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  • [t]he early evidence of writing in Oaxaca does not necessarily imply that the Zapotecs invented the first Mesoamerican system of phonetic writing. The nature of the archaeological record generates differential preservation of the media through which writing was probably conveyed, and since it is plausible that early scribes used as well perishable materials like wood, cloth, bark paper, and deer hides, several aspects of the origin of writing and its early societal uses in Oaxaca and in Mesoamerica in general may lay beyond our reach. (en)
  • The late monuments of Period IIIB exhibit a devastating collapse of the stylistic conventions and structural organization so evident in the works of earlier periods. As in the following, politically post-Monte Alban, Period IV , calendrically oriented information alone, including names of individuals, is as abundant and important in Central Oaxaca as at any point in the development of Zapotec writing, though now lacking ordered and complementary date sequences ... (en)
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  • 5 (xsd:integer)
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  • Undeciphered (en)
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  • Zapotec script (en)
  • Escriptura zapoteca (ca)
  • Escritura zapoteca (es)
  • サポテカ文字 (ja)
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