2025/10/30 by E.Chilberg, Donald
Arts and Humanities · #Architecture #Arts and Humanities #CAJ #Cascajal Block #Classical Archaeology and Art History #Classics #History of Art #Mesoamerica #Music #Music Theory #Olmec #Other History of Art #Other Music #and Archaeology #field theory #glyphic field reader #proto-writing #ritual encoding #undeciphered scripts
paper · doi:10.17605/osf.io/x32np
The Olmec Echo II — Breath of the Jaguar continues the research initiated in The Olmec Echo, advancing a data-driven approach to early Mesoamerican symbolism. This study quantifies the rhythmic structures of the Cascajal Block and translates them into measurable cadence and sound using the Glyphic Acoustic Matrix (GAM). Through normalized parameters of repetition, symmetry, tension, cadence, and contextual cohesion, the work reconstructs how glyphic forms may have embodied cycles of breath, chant, and ritual timing. The resulting Olmec Echo Ceremonial Rhythm is both an analytic model and an audible reconstruction—bridging archaeology, linguistics, and acoustics. The dataset includes the full manuscript, the score (Olmec Echo Ceremonial Rhythm), and supporting materials derived from Apple Numbers, Dorico, and Music Scanner workflows. While there is more work to be done, this project outlines the concept of an ongoing effort to create greater knowledge of the Olmec society and to explore how the earliest symbols of the Americas may still carry the resonance of living sound.