First Writing

verfasst von Popeye, 10.08.2002, 10:18

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FIRST WRITING MAY HAVE BEEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL

Archeologists have long been puzzled by large numbers of small, fired-clay objects
found in the Middle East. Denise Schmandt-Besserat, University of Texas at Austin,
believes that these small geometrical shapes (cones, spheres, disks, etc.) were
actually symbols used in commerce to indicate numbers and types of commodities
(sheep, oil, etc.). Generally less than an inch in size, the clay objects were
apparently sealed in hollow clay spheres to make bills of lading as early as 8,500
B.C. This is 5,000 years before two-dimensional clay tablets were introduced for
writing.

(Anonymous;"From Reckoning to Writing," Scientific American, p. 58, August
1977.)

Comment. These clay symbols might be related to the painted pebbles and small
carved stone balls found in Europe.

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