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Boy, I sure fooled you, then! :-) Thanks, though! And no, I have no ideas on that other than I too wish things worked that way.
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Jackie et al: Incidentally when I posted the question at another site I got much the same response, namely that that there's no easy way: In spite of rockets to the moon getting so trivial we quit doing it 40 years ago and the rise of the Internet where you can correspond with everyone simultaneously, the only way to peddle your book is the way it was done 600 years ago
(..., movable type) Gutenberg
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Dale:
600 years ago with Gutenberg
6000 years ago in cuneiform on stone.
yuk,yuk
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6000 years ago in cuneiform on stone
5K years BP is pushing it, and though there are examples of a semi-alphabetic cuneiform being carved into stone (some Old Persian inscriptions of Darius, ca. 6th century BCE), it was developed for writing on clay tablets. Many tablets have been discovered because the buildings in which they were stored were burned during wartime and the tablets were fired into clay bricks.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Just give you the whole page. They are so wonderful, those clay tablets I saw this summer with lots of other Mesopotamian miracles and treasures in the great BABYLON exhibtion. tablets
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They are so wonderful, those clay tablets
And, deceptively heavy, they are. On a field trip for an archeology class I took way back when, we visited a museum where they let us handle some Babylonian clay tablets. They are quite dense and the writing was tiny and difficult to make out. (The photos one sees are usually very well lighted.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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5K years BP is pushing it.
I was thinking of Fred Flintstone. Sorry.
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