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The invention of cuneiform writing in Sumer Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop

1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time and Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of ...
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The first writing : script invention as history and process / [edited by] Stephen D. Houston

Overture to The first writing / Stephen D. Houston -- The possibilty and actuality of writing / John S. Robertson -- Writing systems: a case study in cultural evolution / Bruce G. Trigger -- ...
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ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technology – ask the Mesopotamians, who invented writing

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Adapting to technological advances is a defining part of 21st-century life. But it’s not unique to us: it’s been part of the ...