# The Cascajal block

> The Cascajal block

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block/artifacts/ART0CYBC9C07Q02/the-cascajal-block  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
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**ART** 0CYBC9C07Q02·Artifact · object

# The Cascajal block

PhotographCC BY 3.0San Lorenzo phase, about 900 BC, by association

[Cite]

[![The Cascajal block: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cascajal-block-a-cascajal-m1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cascajal-block-a-cascajal-m1?w=2000)

The Cascajal block: photograph

[![The Cascajal block: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cascajal-block-a-cascajal-m1)][![The Cascajal block: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/cascajal-block-a-cascajal-m2)]

Michael Everson, 1999. CC BY 3.0

## Copies 6

**Photo** Richard Diehl · famsi.org · not stated1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/cascajal/index.html)

**Photograph** Michael Everson · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY 3.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cascajal-text.jpg)

**Transcription** Stephen Houston (2006) · mesoweb.org · not stated2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.mesoweb.org/reports/Cascajal.pdf)

**Photograph** Jl FilpoC · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 4.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloque_de_Cascajal,_Cultura_olmeca.jpg)

**Transcription** David Mora-Marín after Carrasco and Englehardt (2020) · doi.org · publisher2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536119000270)

**Scan** Englehardt et al. · doi.org · publisherPrimary source: [Digital Imaging and Archaeometric Analysis of the Cascajal Block: Establishing Context and Authenticity for the Earliest Known Olmec Text](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYBBKCW2VEJ/digital-imaging-and-archaeometric-analysis-of-the-cascajal)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536119000257)

## Where it was made

[El Cascajal, Lomas de Tacamichapa, Jáltipan, Veracruz](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYBBQ9W6PVT/el-cascajal-lomas-de-tacamichapa-jaltipan-veracruz) · Archaeological site (quarry)

## Sources 2

- [Oldest Writing in the New World](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYBBJ5T0KBD/oldest-writing-in-the-new-world)_SRC_
- [The Cascajal Block: The Earliest Precolumbian Writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CYBBJDM1BJG/the-cascajal-block-the-earliest-precolumbian-writing)_SRC_

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). The Cascajal block [Artifact ART0CYBC9C07Q02]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0CYBC9C07Q02
```

Key

**ART** 0CYBC9C07Q02

Kind

Object

Held by

INAH (custody and display not confirmed in this session)

Dated

San Lorenzo phase, about 900 BC, by association; reported from the quarry, April 1999

Licence

CC BY 3.0

Place

[El Cascajal, Lomas de Tacamichapa, Jáltipan, Veracruz](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CYBBQ9W6PVT/el-cascajal-lomas-de-tacamichapa-jaltipan-veracruz)

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[Cascajal block and Isthmian writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cascajal-block)

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