Technologies of Composing and Inscribing

  • Cave painting
  • Cuneiform script
  • Hieroglyphics
  • Phoenician alphabetic script
  • Greek alphabetic script with vowels
  • Etruscan adaptation of Greek alphabet
  • Roman alphabet and scripts
  • Medieval Latin scripts
  • Asian calligraphy
  • Printing with movable type
  • {Writing with pens and pencils}
  • Digital production

Purposes

  • Commerce/accounting/recordkeeping
  • religious
  • political, administrative, bureaucratic
  • literary (religious and aesthetic)
  • scholarly/educational
  • private communication
  • personal immortality


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