# Peter Damerow 2006: The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology

> Peter Damerow, 2006. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Damerow's argument that proto-cuneiform is proto-writing: a knowledge-representation…

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# The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology

Peter Damerow, 2006.

**Vinča signs** Article0

## What it's used for here

Damerow's argument that proto-cuneiform is proto-writing: a knowledge-representation system with little or no phonetic coding, judged on its own terms rather than as deficient writing; sign-frequency statistics (about 530 signs once, about 104 over 100 times). Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2006:1. CC BY 4.0.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Proto-writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/concepts/CPT0DEDY0RSVT00/proto-writing)

CPT

[Proto-cuneiform, the one well-studied proto-writing, is an administrative system of numerals, commodity signs and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEE9BZ5YRZX/proto-cuneiform-the-one-well-studied-proto-writing-is-an)

Evidence

EVD

[The archaic texts show no grammar, no fixed sign order within cases and little or no phonetic coding, and their sign…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDXN80K013/the-archaic-texts-show-no-grammar-no-fixed-sign-order-within)

Evidence

EVD

[Peter Damerow](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDPB31WC8Y/peter-damerow)

FIG

[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

The mystery article

MYS

[The Vinča signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

```
Peter Damerow (2006). The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology. https://cdli.earth/articles/cdlj/2006-1
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