Proto-writing

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Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information. Such systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early Neolithic, as early as the 7th millennium BC China and southeastern Europe. Some of the earliest known evidence of proto-writing dates to over 40,000 years ago. They used ideographic or early mnemonic symbols or both to represent a limited number of concepts, in contrast to true writing systems, which record the language of the writer.

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