c. 3200 BC
Proto-cuneiform records at Uruk
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Tablets from Uruk recorded goods and rations with pictographs. They are among the earliest evidence of writing and show information becoming storable and transmissible beyond human memory.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- www.metmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2004-10-01
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.