Mayan Writing
MAYAN WRITING
Mayan writings found in Guatemala reveal that Mayan writing was developed parallel with other Mesoamerican civilizations. According to information provided by William Saturno, an anthropologist with the University of New Hampshire, this writings date back to the Preclassic period (400B.c to 200A.C). of Mayan civilization. This Mayan writings were found last April by Carlos Beltran, an student of anthropology of the School of History of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala. Carlos Beltran found these writings in the ruins of a Mayan temple in San Bartolo, Peten. What Carlos Beltran found was a column with 10 painted glyphs in vertical form with traces of black paint. These glyphs are parallel with writings of other cultures like the Olmec and Oaxaca. These glyphs are important, because this is the first time that glyphs of this kind can be dated. From these glyphs it is possible to determine that the Mayas had a highly developed system parallel to the other civilizations. Up to this point it was thought that the first writings in this region had begun with the Olmecs around 300 A.C. This writings imply that the Mayan had an advanced writing system centuries before originally thought.
