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- Carved into wood and stone
- Each material/method has its own rate of surviavbility, what does this mean if certain genres of text were written on certain materials
- Key takeaways
- Writing is independantly invented in multiple places at different times
- We use this inevntion of writing to demarcate a major divisiion in historical eras (prehisoroy vs history)
- The ivention of writing is a gradual process
- Early writing is invened for a variery of purposes
- Writing is not neccesaarily analogous to recored speech
- Writing is inenvted in already cmplex sociertys with forms of proto-writing and not ex-novo (out of nothing)
- Writing is independently invented in multiple places at different times
- We use this invention of writing to demarcate a major division in historical eras (prehistory vs history)
- The invention of writing is a gradual process
- Early writing is invented for a variety of purposes
- Writing is not necessarily analogous to recorded speech
- Writing is invented in already complex society with forms of proto-writing and not ex-novo (out of nothing)
## Cuneiform
- Overview
- ...
- Death
- Cuneiform probably stopped being written somewhere around 1st c CE, replaced by Aramaic and Greek
- Later writers claimed their teachers (or teacher's teacher) knew the writings of the Chaldean's
- Travelers in the Middle East from the 15th century onward saw the marks and thought they were decorative
- Decipherment
- Carsten Niebuhr traveled to Persepolis (1764) and made excellent copies of the inscriptions, identified that there were three scripts in use
- Friedrich Munter guessed (1802) that in the Old-Persian inscription the most common word was probably "king"
- Georg Gotefend knew that later inscription started with "kings name great king, king of kings, son of kings father the king" and started guessing Persian kings