Lydia Wilson, in the December 23, 2020. Issue of Nautilus, explains the written use of basic bookkeeping on clay tablets in the Near East about 5,000 years ago and how it developed into written language, before which time humans communicated by oral language only.
I assure you that every modern
accountant dimly senses this connection.
It is a complex and beautiful story.
Several decades ago, Scientific
American touched on this development.
The Nautilus story by Wilson
can be found at: http://nautil.us/issue/94/evolving/reading-that-strange-and-uniquely-human-thing
Afterword by the blog author
This blog is collected from news stories
gathered by a retired American certified public accountant.
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