Cuneiform Script

[kkfs.msboyd]

Post your annotated web list for the invention of writing as a reply to this thread.

[jessicak016]

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago:
Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East
This website is about how civilizations in the past developed their writing system from scratch. There are some videos that describe how the symbols or letter the civilizations used in the past came to form and evolve into different symbols.
oi.uchicago.edu/museum/special/writing/



Near East
This website describes in brief description why people began to write, how they communicated each other through writing, and which people during that time could learn to write.
carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/NEAREAST/writMAIN.html



The Earliest Precursor of Writing
The author of the document on this website talks not only of how the writing developed in each civilization, including Middle East, but also what evidences and conclusion the archaeologists and researchers arrived in order to determine the origin of writing.
en.finaly.org/index.php/The_earliest_precursor_of_writing

[anica]

www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html
-> This website tells about how the early invention of writing (pictograms) had developed and changed into cuneiform scripts (signs developed into scripts.)
1.) Pictograms (Earliest form of writing was based on pictures or symbols used to represent trade, crops, and taxes)--> Early people communicated with these representations.

oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/writing.html
The earliest form of actual writing with Sumerian merchants used clay tablets (cuneiforms)
The invention of writing= start of information revolution

www.wisegeek.com/where-was-writing-invented.htm
Invention of writing-> Mesopotamia (B.C. 6000 years)
Mesopotamian cuneiform-> First form of writing on soft clay.
Original function of cuneiform is accounting (trading)

[hanbikang]

How writing was invented.

1. oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/writing.html

This URL is showing pictures that has a relation of how writing was invented. The writings on this website also explain about the special tablets that have meanings of language. Explaining at what time period writing was invented and what it did to make a revolution. Also we can see form the URL that this website is from a university or college by looking at edu meaning education.

2. www.funsci.com/fun3_en/writing/writing.htm

This URL is more organized then the first website. It has different parts that are divided in few sections and is easily to see the important part that is required to research about how writing was invented. It is in presentation format and there are three parts that is important for to learn about how writing was invented.

3. pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/Writing2.htm

This website is also from a college or professor because edu is at the end of the URL. Meaning that it is a renewable source and we can trust on it. It has all the information about the invention of writing as also and discusses about the early writings and the old writings. Comparing the two writings makes it easy to see the difference between nowadays.

[minjaeyang]

Minjae yang


Title: Selections from the Cuneiform Tablets Collection: About the Collection
 
it describes developed by the Sumerians, the materials used in cuneiform, the oldest tablets date from the reign of Gudea of Lagash, the two brick fragments belong to the Shalmanassar III period, and The shape of the clay tablets varies.

memory.loc.gov/intldl/cuneihtml/about.html

 Title: the invention of writing, The history of writing

At the beginning, people used its picture or a conventional sign. Then, they moved onto a phonetic writing system based on the mechanism of the rebus, then they went to a syllabic writing, and arrived at alphabetic writing.

www.funsci.com/fun3en/writing/writing.htm


Title: the original institute od the university of Chicago

Its about The Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia are credited with inventing the earliest form of writing, which appeared ca. 3500B.C. The clay tablets shown on the left date from around 3200 B.C. The writings on these tablets are simple pictures, or pictograms, which represent an object or an idea. Then, cuneiform script was used to produce some of the greatest literary works in recorded history.

oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/writing.html