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The Earliest Precursor of Writing
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
Scientific American, 238, 6, 50-9, Jun 78
Describes various distinctively shaped clay tokens used in western Asia centuries before the Sumerians invented writing. These tokens appear to have served as a basis for Sumerian ideographs. ( MA)
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