From: "Patty A. Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:45:20 -0700 Subject: Is Writing the product of Counting?
See the excerpt from "How Writing Came About" at the University of Texas Press web site: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exschhop.html One can envision a step prior to the "filing" of tokens in sealed vessels, involving use of tokens in open bins, or simply holes dug in the earth. Games to teach stone-age bookkeeping might have been played for enjoyment long after more abstract methods replaced the tokens in commerce. They'd be our mancala-type games. Patty A. Hardy
