Thanks Berosus. One of the old buds on The Globe forum went into some detail about the accounting system change in Sumeria that led to full-blown writing for recordkeeping. :')
Posted on 10/10/2013 8:13:46 AM PDT by robowombat
Clues to Lost Prehistoric Code Discovered in Mesopotamia
By Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor | October 10, 2013 07:44am ET
Researchers studying clay balls from Mesopotamia have discovered clues to a lost code that was used for record-keeping about 200 years before writing was invented.
The clay balls may represent the world's "very first data storage system," at least the first that scientists know of, said Christopher Woods, a professor at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, in a lecture at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, where he presented initial findings.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Here I was going to get on here and write Fortran and you one upped me.
Only to be resurrected in the form of the 0bamacare website.
They had a lot of glitches when they were first introduced.
wouldn’t this code technically be writing?
Fortran works here, as well — it’s just a different prehistoric code epoch. :-)
Initial interpretations indicate that the people of that time feared man-made global warming due to growing use of cook fires and estimated that that world would end within two decades.
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