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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
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 Meso-America, the earliest script is the Olmec script, belonging to the artistically sophisticated Olmec civilization that existed in the Veracruz region on the Gulf of Mexico. The first convincing sample of this script was found in the late 1990s.
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...
Sep 10, 2020 · From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing...
During the Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE), the first writing systems evolved from systems of proto-writing, which used ideographic and mnemonic symbols to communicate information, but did not record human language directly. Proto-writing is attested as early as the 7th millennium BCE, with well-known examples including:
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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.
