A Newly Discovered Column in the Hieroglyphic Text on La Mojarra Stela 1: A Test of the Epi-Olmec Decipherment

A badly weathered column of hieroglyphs was discovered in November 1995 on the side of Stela 1 from La Mojarra in southern Veracruz, Mexico. Most of the signs in this column have now been identified by nighttime examination under artificial lighting, making possible a nearly complete transcription a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1997-07, Vol.277 (5323), p.207-210
Hauptverfasser:	Justeson, John S., Kaufman, Terrence
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	America and Arctic regions Ancient civilizations Anthropology Comparative Analysis Crop harvesting Earth sciences Earth, ocean, space Exact sciences and technology Generalities Grammar Hieroglyphics Language translation Logographs Marine and continental quaternary Orthographies Prehistory and protohistory Protagonists Repetition South America Stelae Suffixes Surficial geology Translation Verbs Words Written Language
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Zusammenfassung:	A badly weathered column of hieroglyphs was discovered in November 1995 on the side of Stela 1 from La Mojarra in southern Veracruz, Mexico. Most of the signs in this column have now been identified by nighttime examination under artificial lighting, making possible a nearly complete transcription and translation of this column. This data expands the modest corpus of epi-Olmec hieroglyphic texts and confirms various aspects of the decipherment of the epi-Olmec script.
ISSN:	0036-8075 1095-9203
DOI:	10.1126/science.277.5323.207