Книга: Writing Implement: Writing, Painting, Drawing, Technical Drawing, Slate and Stylus, Braille, Oracle Bone Script, Lascaux, Sumerian Language

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The oldest known examples of writing were created by incising a flat surface with a rigid tool rather than applying pigment with a secondary object, e.g., Chinese jiaguwen carved into turtle shells. However, this may simply represent the relative durability of such artifacts rather than truly representing the evolution of techniques, as the meaningful application of pigment is attested in prehistoric cave paintings such as the ones at Lascaux.