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minus-squareKornblumenratte@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up21·24 days agoActually there are quite a few archeological findings showing that at least in some cultures, reading and writing was far more common than we think. Cf. e.g. https://ruscorpora.ru/en/corpus/birchbark or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets.
Actually there are quite a few archeological findings showing that at least in some cultures, reading and writing was far more common than we think. Cf. e.g. https://ruscorpora.ru/en/corpus/birchbark or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets.