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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg
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
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I don't necessarily think of it as contradictory any more. In just a few more years at the present pace, written words will be very few.
Today's kids can't even scribble a word!
So, if a civilization was advanced millenniums back- perhaps there was no need for a written word.