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To: SunkenCiv

Sorry. Writing had already been “invented” 5000 years earlier.

FLASH: Earliest Native American Writing Discovered: Smudges on cave roof shown to be smoke signals.


3 posted on 08/27/2011 9:56:29 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
More likely "writing" was reduced to signs about 7500 BC with earlier totemic "writing" consisting of sculpture being present at least 12000 years ago.

Turning the "signs" into a coherent way of representing spoken languages took a bit longer ~

To a degree Sumerian writing arose out of the need for accountants to keep books.

Most American Indian writings are more recent than Sumerian but not necessarily more recent than a great number of Old World systems.

9 posted on 08/27/2011 10:27:21 AM PDT by muawiyah
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