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Oct 22, 2021 · Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. He documents the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West.
In the first of these, the classical theo-ries of writing such as those set out by Gelb (1963) and Diringer (1968) showed the evo-lutionary pattern of how signs that at one time represented objects and events in a somewhat direct and unmediated way, pro-gressively shifted to represent more and more indirectly through the use of marks to indicate...
Thus we have the following approximate dates of origin for writing: Mesopotamia 3100 BC, Egypt 3100–3000 BC, Crete 1750 BC, China 1200 BC, Meso-America 900 BC. On the basis of this chronology, it seems logical to assume that the idea of writing diffused gradually from Mesopotamia to other cultures.
The first alphabetic writing was developed by workers in the Sinai Peninsula to write Semitic languages around 2000 BCE. This script worked by giving Egyptian hieratic letters Semitic sound values.
Jan 31, 2020 · Writing was first invented by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia before 3,000 BCE. It was also independently invented in Meso-America before 600 BCE and probably independently invented in China before 1,300 BCE.
- Rochelle Forrester
The available evidence shows that writing arose autochthonously in three places of the world: in Mesopotamia about 3200 BeE, in China about 1250 BeE, and in Mesoamerica around 650 BCE. Devising a system of graphic symbols to represent the sounds of language is, in itseli, a remarkable achievement.
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Abstract. Writing - a system of graphic marks representing the units of a specific language - has been invented independently in the Near East, China and Mesoamerica. The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin.
