2007-03-21 08:19:21 · 5 answers · asked by kierster 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The invention of the first writing systems is roughly contemporary with the beginning of the Bronze Age in the late Neolithic of the late 4th millennium BC. The first writing system is generally believed to have been invented in Sumer, by the late 3rd millennium developing into the archaic cuneiform of the Ur III stage. Contemporaneously, the Proto-Elamite script developed into Linear Elamite.
2007-03-21 08:24:08 · answer #1 · answered by Yellow Tail 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends what you define as writing; many very ancient pictogram style images may well have had a primitive system but do not conform to the technical definition of writing as they have no clear alphabet. If you count pictograms, then we can go back much further than the cuneiform writing of ancient Sumer as mentioned by other contributors.
2007-03-22 04:41:02 · answer #2 · answered by Vivienne T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earliest form of writing has been found in Sumer in the Mesopotamia era. It doesn't look anything like what you would find today.
2007-03-21 15:37:53 · answer #3 · answered by Starwyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have areally good book on the subject called 'voices in stone' ( the decipherment of ancient scripts and writings)by ernst doblhofer- may help.
2007-03-21 15:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check these websites:
2007-03-21 15:39:27 · answer #5 · answered by Millie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋