GEN 140 - The Evolution of Writing
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 2014-09-29

In this first of two related E-lectures, Prof. Handke discusses the orgins of modern writing, from early paintings found 17,000 BC, via proto-writing systems, such as tallies or the Inca Quipu-system, to the predecessors of modern writing, such as the Cuneiform system.