There may also have been a series of simple pictures that someone had put next to each other, then someone else figuring out “hey, if I make the symbols simple enough and draw a lot of them, I can actually record stories completely accurately!”
In that case, the reading would come first, as the reader would be the first one to interpret the simplistic images as text.
There may also have been a series of simple pictures that someone had put next to each other, then someone else figuring out “hey, if I make the symbols simple enough and draw a lot of them, I can actually record stories completely accurately!”
In that case, the reading would come first, as the reader would be the first one to interpret the simplistic images as text.