What is the worlds oldest known writing system?

Question

Please.

After a bit of digging, it was a toss up between some possible pictograms on a piece of tortoiseshell in a Chinese grave, or Old European, AKA 'Vinca'. There's not enough evidence that the Chinese pictograms are writing, but the Vinca does seem to be a writing system, so Vinca wins. It's easily pre Cuneiform.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/vinca.htm

Answer 1

pictures on cave walls, then it was chinese (traditional)

Answer 2

In terms of a non-pictographic form of writing it would be the Sumerian Cuneiform writing system. Before that writing systems were mostly illustrations, and those trace their roots all the way back to the stone age.

Answer 3

Cuneiform, written with an edge in soft clay left to dry. It started out as pictograms and was pared down to those signs :


http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/images/cuneiform-intro.jpg

Answer 4

Sumerian script it was more marking than a language , mostly for keeping accounts of goods but developed a form of understanding that in a very loose way was writing

Answer 5

I believe the world's oldest writing is 5500 years old and was found at Harappa in Pakistan in 1999. I'm not aware of anything else since having been found that pre-dates it.

Please see the BBC link below.

Answer 6

Probably Cuneiform, used by the Sumerians.

Answer 7

I think that would be the sumerian, although their writing system was pictographic in the beginnig and not alphabetical. They also have the oldest known religion.

Answer 8

The cuneiform, used by ancient Mesopotamia and Sumeria. It was like hieroglyphs, in that it used pictures as words.

Answer 9

Sumerian or Egyptian are generally credited with being the oldest.

Neanderthals could write their name in the snow.

Answer 10

cuneiform?