Writing is not present in all 'complex' societies, but it can signal inequality

ScienceDaily
Feb 11, 2022, 10:27 am221 pts
For a long time, anthropologists believed that a written language was a hallmark of a society being complex or 'advanced.' A new study on precolonial Mesoamerican societies shows that you can have a society with a big population and a complex government without a writing system. However, societies with writing…

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