History of writing (English Wikipedia)

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Mitchell, Larkin. "Earliest Egyptian Glyphs". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. The seal impressions, from various tombs, date even further back, to 3400 B.C. These dates challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia.

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Walker (1989), pp. 7–9. Walker, C. B. F. (1989). Cuneiform: Reading The Past. British Museum. ISBN 978-0-7141-8059-5.
Salomon (1996), Brahmi and Kharoshthi. Salomon, Richard (1996). "Brahmi and Kharoshthi". The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7.

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Olson & Torrance (2009), p. 59. Olson, David R.; Torrance, Nancy (2009). The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86220-2 – via Google Books.
Krebs & Krebs (2003), p. 91. Krebs, Robert E.; Krebs, Carolyn A. (2003). Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Ancient World. Greenwood. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-313-31342-4.
Keightley, David N.; Barnard, Noel (1983). The Origins of Chinese Civilization. University of California Press. pp. 415–416. ISBN 978-0-520-04229-2 – via Google Books.
Walker, C. B. F. (1987). Cuneiform. University of California Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-520-06115-6 – via Google Books.
Boudreau (2004), p. 71. Boudreau, Vincent, ed. (2004). The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83861-0 – via Google Books.
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- Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1995). "Writing". The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. William B. Eerdmans. p. 1150. ISBN 978-0-8028-3784-4 – via Google Books.
- Allen, James P. (2010). Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Cambridge University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-139-48635-4 – via Google Books. Although it was once thought that the idea of writing came to Egypt from Mesopotamia, recent discoveries indicate that writing arose first in Egypt.
- Bagley (2004), p. 190. Bagley, Robert (2004). "Anyang writing and the origin of the Chinese writing system". In Houston, Stephen (ed.). The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83861-0 – via Google Books.
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- The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World. Martino Fine. 2016. ISBN 978-1-61427-930-3.

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Cast; tablet. British Museum. C.206.

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"Archaeologists Rewrite History". China Daily. 12 June 2003. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2006.

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Regulski (2016). Regulski, Ilona (2016). "The Origins and Early Development of Writing in Egypt". Online Only -- Archaeology. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.013.61. ISBN 978-0-19-993541-3 – via Oxford Handbooks Online.
Fagan et al. (1996), p. 762. Fagan, Brian M.; Beck, Charlotte; Michaels, George; Scarre, Chris; Silberman, Neil Asher, eds. (1996). "Writing: Introduction". The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195076189.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-507618-9.
Pilcher, Helen R. (30 April 2003). "Earliest Handwriting Found? Chinese Relics Hint at Neolithic Rituals". Nature. doi:10.1038/news030428-7. Symbols carved into tortoise shells more than 8,000 years ago ... unearthed at a mass-burial site at Jiahu in the Henan Province of western China
Li, X.; Harbottle, G.; Zhang, J.; Wang, C. (2003). "The Earliest Writing? Sign Use in the Seventh Millennium BCE at Jiahu, Henan Province, China". Antiquity. 77 (295): 31–44. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00061329. S2CID 162602307.
Olivier (1986), p. 377. Olivier, J.-P. (1986). "Cretan Writing in the Second Millennium B.C". World Archaeology. 17 (3): 377–389. doi:10.1080/00438243.1986.9979977.
Millard (1986), p. 396. Millard, A. R. (1986). "The Infancy of the Alphabet". World Archaeology. 17 (3): 390–398. doi:10.1080/00438243.1986.9979978.
McCarter (1974), p. 62. McCarter, P. Kyle (1974). "The Early Diffusion of the Alphabet". The Biblical Archaeologist. 37 (3): 54–68. doi:10.2307/3210965. JSTOR 3210965. S2CID 126182369.
Piquette & Whitehouse (2013), pp. 2–5. Piquette, Kathryn E.; Whitehouse, Ruth D., eds. (2013). Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium. Ubiquity. doi:10.5334/bai. ISBN 978-1-909188-24-2.
Meyer (2004). Meyer, Elizabeth A. (2004). Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511482861. ISBN 978-0-521-49701-5.
Bodde, Derk; Morris, Clarence (1967). Law in Imperial China: Exemplified by 190 Ch'ing Dynasty Cases, With Historical, Social, and Juridical Commentaries. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674733213. ISBN 978-0-674-73319-0.
Perrett, Roy W. (1999). "History, Time, and Knowledge in Ancient India". History and Theory. 38 (3): 307–321. doi:10.1111/0018-2656.00094.
Kruse (2006). Kruse, Otto (2006). "The Origins of Writing in the Disciplines: Traditions of Seminar Writing and the Humboldtian Ideal of the Research University". Written Communication. 23 (3): 331–352. doi:10.1177/0741088306289259. ISSN 0741-0883.

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Ellickson, Robert; Thorland, Charles (1995). "Ancient Land Law: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel". Chicago-Kent Law Review. 71: 328–331. hdl:20.500.13051/3557.

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McCarter (1974), p. 62. McCarter, P. Kyle (1974). "The Early Diffusion of the Alphabet". The Biblical Archaeologist. 37 (3): 54–68. doi:10.2307/3210965. JSTOR 3210965. S2CID 126182369.
Gillispie, Charles Coulston (1992). "Science and Secret Weapons Development in Revolutionary France, 1792–1804". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 23: 35–152. JSTOR 27757692.

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Lindström, Tom (2005). "On the Nature of Joint Strength in paper-A Review of Dry and Wet Strength Resins Used in Paper Manufacturing". 13th Fundamental Research Symposium. 1: 457–562 – via Researchgate.

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Li, X.; Harbottle, G.; Zhang, J.; Wang, C. (2003). "The Earliest Writing? Sign Use in the Seventh Millennium BCE at Jiahu, Henan Province, China". Antiquity. 77 (295): 31–44. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00061329. S2CID 162602307.
McCarter (1974), p. 62. McCarter, P. Kyle (1974). "The Early Diffusion of the Alphabet". The Biblical Archaeologist. 37 (3): 54–68. doi:10.2307/3210965. JSTOR 3210965. S2CID 126182369.

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"Archaeologists Rewrite History". China Daily. 12 June 2003. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2006.

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Friedrich, Michael. "Introduction: Towards a Holistic Study of Written Artefacts in Ancient History". In Betrò, Friedrich & Michel (2024), pp. 12–13. Betrò, Marilina; Friedrich, Michael; Michel, Cécile, eds. (2024). The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts. Studies in Manuscript Cultures. Vol. 37. Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-135902-1. ISSN 2365-9696.
Jones (1965). Jones, Richard F. (1965) [1936]. Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Background of the Battle of the Books (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. OCLC 877465393.
Kruse (2006). Kruse, Otto (2006). "The Origins of Writing in the Disciplines: Traditions of Seminar Writing and the Humboldtian Ideal of the Research University". Written Communication. 23 (3): 331–352. doi:10.1177/0741088306289259. ISSN 0741-0883.

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Mark, Joshua J. "Egyptian Papyrus". World History Encyclopedia.