> Isn't the better question who invented those things? I mean we are looking for the first one, which is likely to be the person who invented it. So... you're

> Isn't the better question who invented those things? I mean we are looking for the first one, which is likely to be the person who invented it. So... you're assuming that the earliest example we can find will literally be the first creation. The instance where it was invented. I'm afraid you have an incredibly unrealistic view of the archaeological record. The odds are infinitesimally low that we will ever find the actual first example of human writing, or that it has even survived.