Archaeologica.org

http://www.ancientscripts.com/ma_ws.html

Here is an excellent site on the history or writing with lots of good
illustrations. It's long....but a good reference for this board.

Great find, Stan.

yes a good site toperuse, thoughit seems more focused on mayan/olmec language than most of theothers. i didn't find where they said how early writing started except that 'egypt and indus developeded independently from mesoamerica'

any cross references available to date the origin of writing?

Thanks Stan. Good reference.

Thanks for the omniglot link, marduk.