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Early Olmec Writing: Reading Format and Reading Order
David F. Mora-Marín, 2009. Latin American Antiquity 20(3), pp. 395 to 412.
Argues from repeated sign sequences and layout, not from sign orientation, that the block should be turned 90 degrees and read in columns left to right and top to bottom, like later Mesoamerican scripts; finds structural patterns that may be linguistic.
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The main revision of the 2006 reading format.
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Mora-Marín, D. F. (2009). Early Olmec Writing: Reading Format and Reading Order. Latin American Antiquity 20(3), pp. 395 to 412. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1045663500002777
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Mora-Marín, David F.. “Early Olmec Writing: Reading Format and Reading Order.” Latin American Antiquity 20(3), pp. 395 to 412 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1045663500002777.