The origins of writing revealed | New Scientist Weekly 275

[@joskeguereza3714]

a time indexed list of the various subjects would be very convenient.

[@dipperdog]

Great stuff- thanks! And ignore the climate/science deniers in the comments- we've been dealing with those sorts of people since long before cuneiform writing came along.

[@acmebrainsurgery]

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[@zipperpillow]

32 minutes of nothing. Skip.

[@TheWillmo65]

Your research is off.

[@moscuadelendaest]

Is it?

[@TheWillmo65]

@@moscuadelendaest 10+ years ago, an archeological team published an article on their finding clay pods with Sumerian cuneiform impressed with a stylus and identifying the two parties to the transaction, the number and items exchanged, and the scribe recording the trade 5000 years before the 3200 BCE.

[@moscuadelendaest]

@@TheWillmo65 source?

[@TheWillmo65]

@@moscuadelendaest Do the research. This is facebook, not court, a science journal or 5th grade.

[@moscuadelendaest]

@@TheWillmo65 so... no source?

[@andrewgarcia6951]

Do your own research... These guys are off 😂😂😂

[@eh1702]

Yeah, just ignore *actual research* and read secondary sources and outdated stuff instead. Just the guys who dig stuff up and carbon date it, and who organise chronologies that match up with ancient tree growth and other stuff. Ignore the people who can read and understand the earliest fully functioning, true writing. Now they have figured which signs (like the equivalent of modern clothes-label or road symbols) that gave rise to those - that counts for nothing, right?. You ALREADY knew better. Even though you never studied any of it. You like something else better, so “these guys are off”.

[@eh1702]

Why didn’t I realise that reading books and browsing the web is “research”? Silly me, I imagined that digging up the actual objects and figuring them out was research!