early writing
Pictographs and glyphs
Early writing refers to the first systems humans developed to record language, typically including cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Chinese characters.
The term appears in archaeology and education: The museum's early writing collection includes Sumerian clay tablets.
In child development, early writing describes a young child's first attempts at forming letters or symbols: Her early writing showed she understood letters represent sounds.
- oracle bone scriptShang dynasty writing system
- stylusPointed implement for marking
- reed penCut hollow stem for writing
- clay tabletsInscribed earthen slabs
- inkWriting fluid
cuneiform · wet clay · Proto-Sinaitic · logograms · papyrus · wedge · graphemes · record-keeping · syllabaries · pictographs · hieroglyphics · dead languages · bulla · Phoenician alphabet · Fertile Crescent · ancient scribes · parchment · Mayan glyphs
- ancient historyancient history, ancient world, classical antiquity, ancient empires, Mesopotamia
- linguisticslinguistics, phoneme, phonemes, morpheme, morphemes
- MesoamericaMaya, Aztec, Aztecs, Aztec Empire, Olmec
- ancient writinghieroglyphs, cuneiform, papyrus, scroll, clay tablets
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- AkkadAkkadian, Sargon, royal inscriptions
early writingdigital writing
Computer-composed prose
word processing · printed books · e-books · online publishing · movable type