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2007-11-06 04:59:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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

2007-11-09 01:22:39 · update #1

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

2007-11-06 05:05:24 · answer #1 · answered by My pic looks good 2 · 0 0

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.

2007-11-06 13:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 4 0

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

2007-11-06 14:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by Cabal 7 · 1 0

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

2007-11-07 12:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1 0

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.

2007-11-06 13:31:30 · answer #5 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1 0

Probably Cuneiform, used by the Sumerians.

2007-11-06 15:07:09 · answer #6 · answered by Rosina 5 · 2 0

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.

2007-11-06 13:19:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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

2007-11-06 18:24:54 · answer #8 · answered by Ar-Pharazon 3 · 2 0

Sumerian or Egyptian are generally credited with being the oldest.

Neanderthals could write their name in the snow.

2007-11-06 13:14:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

cuneiform?

2007-11-06 13:07:21 · answer #10 · answered by Lepke 7 · 1 0

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