The Earliest Precursor of Writing (original) (raw)

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Scientific American

June 1, 1978

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Long before the Sumerians invented writing, accounts in western Asia were kept with clay tokens of various distinctive shapes. It appears that the tokens gave rise to the Sumerian ideographs

By Denise Schmandt-Besserat

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