Table of Contents
Writing: Ancient Origins with Modem Implications
Foreword 3
Part One: Digitization Ancient and Modem: Beginnings of
Writing and Today's Computer
By Walter J. Ong, SJ
Prelude 4
I. Some Digitization in Antiquity 5
II. Route Toward Full Writing 5
lll. Prehistory of Cuneiform Writing 7
IV. From Tallying to Cardinal Numbers 8
V. Simplicity to Complexity: Urban Life 10
VI. Concrete to Abstract 11
VII. Cumbrous Clay Envelopes to the Stylus 11
VIII. Numeracy before Literacy 13
IX. Technologizing the Evanscent Oral Word 14
X. The Alphabet, Orality Friendly and
Computer Friendly 15
XI. Digitization, Alphabetization and Print 16
XII. Some Digitization Association of Human Thoughts 18
References 20
Part Two: A Review of Some Recent Studies on the Origin
of Notation and Writing
By W. E. Biematzki, SJ
I. Paleolithic Notation 21
II. "Old Europe" and "The Goddess" 22
Ill. More on Tokens and Cuneiform 23
IV. Predynastic Egypt 25
V. Other Writing Systems 27
VI. Alphabets 29
Perspective 29
References 31
Acknowledgements 32
Book Reviews 32
Book Sale ad 48
Recommended Citation
Ong, Walter J. and Biernatzki, William E. S.J.
(1998)
"Writing: Ancient Origins with Modern Implications,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 18:
No.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol18/iss2/1