A Conversation for The Origins of Writing - Clay Pidgin?

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anhaga

The jury is still very much out on the question of who came up with the first script:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa051199.htm

It seems to me that there are a few Paleolithic bone artifacts floating around that are thought by some to have been calendrical calculation pads, which implies a certain rudimentary form of script. I have a suspicion that something like writing has been around nearly as long as speech, but that's pretty much unprovable.

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