Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction - Andrew Robinson (2009)

❐ Highlights ❐ Notes Highlights Civilization cannot exist without spoken language, but it can without written communication. The earliest writings from Mesopotamia, fired clay tablets dating from around 3300 BC, are all accounting records. The earliest writing from Europe, the Linear A and Linear B clay tablets from Crete/mainland Greece belonging to the mid-2nd millennium BC, are account records.…