There’s actually some archaeologists/historians who argue early Chinese characters show influence from Cuneiform, and that both show simularities to neolithic protowriting systems in some of their symbols. Unfortunately they publish in french so i cant read their shit yet
Theres also evidence (discussed in above article) that huntergatherers in Europe 40k years ago had a protowriting system as complicated as the very, very early cuneiform writings.
There’s actually some archaeologists/historians who argue early Chinese characters show influence from Cuneiform, and that both show simularities to neolithic protowriting systems in some of their symbols. Unfortunately they publish in french so i cant read their shit yet
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed
Theres also evidence (discussed in above article) that huntergatherers in Europe 40k years ago had a protowriting system as complicated as the very, very early cuneiform writings.