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 | | * what she discovered: writing was preceded by counting, and counting was done with clay tokens, starting as early as 8000 BC * that is, shortly after neolithic revolution and probably as a consequence of it. |
| | 3000 BC, it became common to string the tokens together and enclose the end of the string in a ball of clay or to deposit them inside round and hollow clay envelopes |
| | * Europeans heard about it, probably from traders, and in the 1420s and 1430 tried to adapt it to Latin characters--not successful, --technically a hard thing to do because the letters were smaller |
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