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| − | [[Image:Cuneiform.jpg|thumb|300px|A cuneiform tablet]] | + | [[Image:Cuneiform.jpg|thumb|300px|A cuneiform tablet]] '''Cuneiform''' is the earliest form of [[writing]]. Cuneiforms were made by pressing a sharpened [[reed]] into a soft clay tablet to make wedge shaped letters. Cuneiform comes from the [[Latin]] word ''cuneus'', meaning wedge. <ref>Spodek, Howard. ''The World's History''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 56.</ref> |
== The Evolution of Cuneiform == | == The Evolution of Cuneiform == | ||
| − | + | [[Pictogram]]s were first used by the [[Sumerian]]s around 3500 BC, a direct product of the [[fertile crescent]]. True wedge-shaped Cuneiform symbols were created around 3000 BC. Later the pictograms evolved into [[ideogram]]s, and finally the modern Sumerian [[alphabet]]. <ref>Spodek, Howard. ''The World's History''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 55-56.</ref> | |
== References == | == References == | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
[[category:anthropology]] | [[category:anthropology]] | ||
| + | [[category:languages]] | ||
Revision as of 19:23, May 9, 2007
Cuneiform is the earliest form of writing. Cuneiforms were made by pressing a sharpened reed into a soft clay tablet to make wedge shaped letters. Cuneiform comes from the Latin word cuneus, meaning wedge. [1]
The Evolution of Cuneiform
Pictograms were first used by the Sumerians around 3500 BC, a direct product of the fertile crescent. True wedge-shaped Cuneiform symbols were created around 3000 BC. Later the pictograms evolved into ideograms, and finally the modern Sumerian alphabet. [2]