İstmiya yazısı

İsthmian yazısı ya da Kıstak yazısı, Tehuantepec Kıstağı etrafındaki yazıtlarda bulunan ve MÖ 500 - MS 500 yıllarına tarihlenen erken dönem semboller dizisidir; ancak tarihler konusunda anlaşmazlıklar vardır. La Mojarra yazısı ve Epi-Olmec yazısı ('Olmec sonrası yazı') olarak da adlandırılır.

Kaynaklar

Brigham Young University press-release on behalf of Brigham Young University archaeologist Stephen Houston and Yale University professor emeritus Michael Coe disputing the Justeson-Kaufman findings.
Diehl, Richard A. (2004) The Olmecs: America's First Civilization, Thames & Hudson, London.
Houston, Stephen, and Michael Coe (2004) "Has Isthmian Writing Been Deciphered?", Mexicon XXV: 151–161.
Justeson, John S., and Terrence Kaufman (1993), "A Decipherment of Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing" in Science, Vol. 259, 19 March 1993, pp. 1703–11.
Justeson, John S., and Terrence Kaufman (1997) "A Newly Discovered Column in the Hieroglyphic Text on La Mojarra Stela 1: a Test of the Epi-Olmec Decipherment", Science, Vol. 277, 11 July 1997, pp. 207–10.
Justeson, John S., and Terrence Kaufman (2001) Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing and Texts Archived 2011-05-25 at the Wayback Machine.
Lo, Lawrence; "Epi-Olmec", at Ancient Scripts.com (accessed January 2008).
Pérez de Lara, Jorge, and John Justeson "Photographic Documentation of Monuments with Epi-Olmec Script/Imagery", Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI).
Robinson, Andrew (2008) Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, Thames & Hudson, 978-0-500-51453-5.
Schuster, Angela M. H. (1997) "Epi-Olmec Decipherment" in Archaeology, online (accessed January 2008).

Dış bağlantılar

"Photographic Documentation of Monuments with Epi-Olmec Script/Imagery" from the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.
High resolution image of the Isthmian glyph table
Tuxtla Statuette photograph
Drawing of La Mojarra Stela 1
High resolution photo of the Coe/Houston Mask