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Science 2 May 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5620, p. 723
DOI: 10.1126/science.300.5620.723a
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Tortoise Pace for the Evolution of Chinese Writing?

Andrew Lawler

Writing did not emerge in China until 2 millennia after it appeared in what is today southern Iraq, about 5200 years ago. But a team of Chinese and U.S. researchers now proposes that writing in China went through a long, slow evolution that stretches back an astonishing 8000 years.

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