If various European people groups really had proto-writing from as far back as 40,000 years all the way to the neolithic "Old Europe" / Vinčan settlements, why did they never invent writing? Were they truly incapable? Is there evidence to the contrary? Are runes the best they could do?
>>18522153The Phoenician alphabet originated from Proto-Sinaitic, which was used by Semitic foreigner workers in Egypt residing from Sinai who copied Egyptian hieroglyphs, a sacred language created for religious purposes and understood/used only by the Egyptian priesthood. Europeans did not have a centralized religious priesthood until Rome.
>>18522157Why would that matter at all? Sure, a priestly class might be extremely useful for actually perpetuating it and allowing it to persevere... Still, written language is obviously useful and it would seem like someone somewhere would have tried to create it within countless generations.
>>18522153Ogham for the Celts. Nordic/Germanic Runes were also based from the Semitic-Punic script, that also inspired the Latin one. Both likely given by Etruscans from their own development of them. Most languages and their speaking people have no scripts of their own. Even Babylonian, Avestan, and Akkadian had the Sumerian script like how most European languages are the Latin script.
>>18522153i mean even "proto writing" is literally writing
>2500 years ago we were 200 years ahead of you in the tech treeOk well you are now 2500 years behind us in the tech tree.You are welcome to fuck off back to your brown clown hovel
Writing has only been independently created something like 4 times across all of human history
>>18522433Not really. Proto-writing It doesn't express the full range of a given language. As an analogy, it would be like if all we communicated with were emojis in lieu of letters.
>>18522153Europeans invented writing, period.
>>18522786WE
>>18522153Why didn't the ancient middle easterners figure out how to make semiconductors. They knew how to make iron tools?Or far more important question. Why are brownies with inferiority complex so dumb on this board?
>>18522153>why did they never invent writing?To write what?The biggest settlements in those days were about 2000 people. They had no horses or carts so trade was by foot and by dugout canoe, slow and short distance, probably mostly with surrounding settlements rather than long distance.As such there were no kings, no centralised authorities.There was no full writing because there wasn't anywhere big enough to need it.
>>18523114>The biggest settlements in those days were about 2000 people. They had no horses or carts so trade was by foot and by dugout canoe, slow and short distance, probably mostly with surrounding settlements rather than long distance.>As such there were no kings, no centralised authoritiesVGHHHH
>>18523114This seems like a non-answer to me. "In those days"... in what "days"? Contemporary civilizations invented writing. Writing is obviously an extremely useful tool. There'd have been PLENTY of things to write about that I'm sure were simply passed down earlier.Now sure, maybe Europeans really were just so spread out and tribalistic that writing didn't spread in the same way as it did in other places around the world. That would definitely be a welcomed truth. Though if there is evidence of that, I haven't found it yet.Could there have been a conscious effort among those people groups to NOT write things down? That doesn't seem reasonable, yet the fact that there is no independently developed European writing system at all is likewise baffling.
>>18524087>Could there have been a conscious effort among those people groups to NOT write things down?Possibly. The Vedas in India were and still are traditionally passed down orally because they believed the sounds possessed spiritual value so writing them down would limit their power. The oldest myths and poetry we know of today have their origin in oral cultures where illiterate bards composed songs and stories, most of them extemporaneous and so without the need or use for writing. Writing only started for recording long boring lists and numbers by merchants and traders, not as a way to preserve stories, laws, morality, myths or other cultural ideas. And oral culture was a huge thing in most civilizations until relatively recently when literacy became widespread.
Indo europeans had a god of writing ogmios/hermes which indicates they probably had writing. It would have mainly been used for religious purposes by the priest class.
>>18522153Greeks did but they forgot it.
>>18522153>why did they never invent writing?They did.
