Olmec Writing

Learn about the decipherment of the Olmec writing of Mexico and the many inscriptions the Olmecs have left us relating to their history and culture.

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Education

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• Olmec
• writing
• Vai
• script
• Mande
• Mexico
• LaVenta
• Olmecheads

[redneck641]

...It needs more focus with other mesoamerican groups to proove that their writing was influenced by the Olmecs. One more thing, there is absolutely no evidence that Comalcalco was an educative center, its surroundings shows it was more for the explotations of local natural resources like cocoa and fruits but if there was once a university, the archaeological evidence has not revealed anything related to a university, one education, check data from the Tepuchcalli and Calmecac in Tenochtitlan.

[Olmec98]

Neil Steede, in Preliminary Catalogue of the Comalcalco Bricks, published a number of bilingual Mayan-Olmec inscription. The vast number of foriegn inscriptions in this catalogue make it clear that this site was an educative center.

[redneck641]

ok well this has an interesting point of view ammongst the Olmec. unfortunately we have to find more evidence to proove that the Olmec really came from Africa. An other point is that most of the sites in the end are mainly Maya and even though they did probably have contact with the Olmec in the Formative period, their writing was quite diferent from Olmec. one last point is that the Olmec didnt build stone piramids, they built them with clay. This was interesting buwe need more evidence.

[Olmec98]

The bilingual text discussed in the movie make it clear that at the base of the Mayan writing are syllabic Olmec symbols. The jaguar sub-pyramids of the Mayan pyramidas were built of stone and were probably contructed by Olmec.

[redneck641]

This is interesting as well but how come the Maya were the only ones to adopt their writing when other Formative mesoamerican groups didn't manage to obtain the writing? Chalcatzingo, Teopantecuanitlan and Tlatilco in the highlands had strong Olmec influences but later during the Classic, didn't continue using the writing, in fact there is no evidence of writing for other mesoamerican groups (or at least they are yet to be found).

[Olmec98]

It is difficult to answer this question. It would appear that the Maya, given the Mande substratum in many Mayan languages lived for extensive period of time in a bilingual Olmec environment and adopted many Olmec cultural experienxes during this time. The Maya took many elements of Olmec civilization and moulded into their own unique image. This is why we find the Mayan imprint on its pyramidial architecture and reinvention of Olmec syllabic symbols into Mayan hieroglyphics.

[Alusnovalotus]

hmmm there may be something to be said about a possible link to this theorybut... there seems to be no solid proof to this hypothesis.... that and few natives of that area show african geneological proof if any..... there must be a sign somewherre besides just the writing style....

[interstellarwonder]

great vid, lots to chew on. like the piano tune especially.

[IExposeMormonism]

I found "American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West", 1829, 1835 5th edition, 25,000copies. I bought the book because of Mormonism. It quotes some 30 pages between Rafenesque and Champollion. But be careful with Rafenesque. I'm not going into it here. There are lots of agenda's out there. Like the Mormons. Champollion had Egyptian dialed. Joe Smith thought he did and wrote "The Abraham Papyrus". A fraud. Many documentaries on YTube say Champollion was not known in 1837. He was well known.

[elevenby2]

PLEASE..GIVE TO ME THIS MUSIC..MANY THANKS

[acidbath667]

Read "finger prints of the gods"

[shaun7the7mod]

like your vid,,it has always been at the back of my mind,of the similarity of the Mexican and Egyptian pyramids ,

[XxMichelllexX]

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wow is it over yet?

[redneck641]

I would like to know if anything new pops up in you're research, thanks for this info and I hope to hear from you soon. I wish you luck in you're investigations and hopefully something new can reveal us more from the Olmec, if you can try to see if there are writing in the central highlands, it might show how the Olmec interactec with other central mesoamerican groups in the center and western Mesoamerica. Thanks again and good luck.

[redneck641]

This can be qute interesting for archaeological and linguistical research, there is a stone found in Veracruz years ago that contains probable Olmec writing "La Piedra Mojarra" is a stella that contains lots of Olmec (or Epi-Olmec) information it could give a bigger point of view for Olmec life (though it might only tell us about the life of a certain king or a kind of ritual). I hope that further research could reveal more from the Olmec and its people. I hope to know more in the future.