Via cuneiform? Economics.
Folks had been using other means of tallying and storing information for some time. Some parts of those older traditions (such as using a seal to mark ownership, authority or responsibility) continue up until today.
Folks had been using other means of tallying and storing information for some time. Some parts of those older traditions (such as using a seal to mark ownership, authority or responsibility) continue up until today.
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Noah Dahl
Begging the question: what *was* it that drove homo sapiens to come up with the written word?
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However like the internet, it seems that one driver of its adoption was more titillating than keeping track of the number of cows owed by a neighbor....