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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
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Writings actually go back only about 6000 years, yet, humans roamed the earth a long time ago, it would seem a contradictory of terms.
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Why do you consider this contradictory?
writing is correlated w/ increasing population density(town/cities) and growing interdependence between the inhabitants of the towns/cities. A small # of the inhabitants were the first to have enough leisure time to figure some more intellectual things out, things like writing and math, The first writing was likely related to inventory control or taxation. Our current Hindu-Arabic numeration system dates from only ~ AD 700, ~1300 years ago
