A couple of articles about the discovery of 'a fist-sized ceramic cylinder
and fragments of engraved plaques' containing what, if it is indeed
writing, would be the earliest known script of the Americas.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993151

http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20021205/wlang1205/Front/homeBN/breakingnews


John Hudson

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