![]() ![]() Resumen En el presente artículo se analiza la cuestión si el registro de números y fechas calendáricas, usualmente proporcionadas como ejemplos de escritura más antigua de Mesoamérica, puede ser considerado escritura. ![]() Without wishing to list all the criteria that in the author’s opinion should be decisive in categorizing a system as “writing”, some of the factors involved with the recording of numbers and dates are identified and explored. Whether numerical and calendric signs are themselves linked to a specific language will therefore be analyzed. The objective of this article is not to deny that this constitutes writing (which in the opinion of the author it does), but to point out that the investigators who agree on this position individually accept distinct definitions of what writing is, that is, as much those who define writing in the “classic” way, as a system that is based on and reflects language, as those who are in favor of a broader definition (often employing the term “semasiography”). ![]() Abstract This article examines the question of whether the recording of numbers and calendar dates, usually provided as examples of the earliest writing in Mesoamerica, should be considered writing.
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