The Earliest Precursor of Writing

Denise Schmandt-Besserat, bold French archaeologist, was a generous scholarship from a legendary American and well-endowed universities across the Atlantic. The intent of the scholarship was to investigate the origin of writing. It was assumed that the origin was in the Middle East, some of the broad river basins of the Euphrates and Tigris, three or four thousand years B.C. The writing was half as effective in conveying information that his appearance revolutionized our understanding of history. In this lies the importance of this archaeological research. Schmandt-Besserat visited the lands of present Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Israel towards the sixties and seventies, and worked hard. It is known that the alphabetic writing, point to point, is a belated writing of some 1,500 to 1,000 years B.C. Before this we find a syllabic script and even earlier, a write-drawing, called ideographic, because it reduced to a graphic image, more or less stylized, an idea or like-minded. This type of writing seems to be the oldest of all and is now between the years 3000 and 4000 B.C. in Mesopotamia. But the eminent French archaeologist us, as a result of his surprising excavations, a table Pushing back the origin of rudimentary writing until years 7.000-8.000 B.C.

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