<P> The clay tablet was thus being used by scribes to take down the events of what was happening during his time . Tools that these scribes used were styluses with sharp triangular tips , making it easy to leave markings on the clay , the clay tablets themselves came in a variety of colors such as bone white , chocolate , and charcoal . Pictographs then began to appear on clay tablets around 4000 BC , and after the later development of Sumerian cuneiform writing , a more sophisticated partial syllabic script evolved that by around 2500 BC was capable of recording the vernacular , the everyday speech of the common people . </P>
<P> The clay tablet was thus being used by scribes to take down the events of what was happening during his time . Tools that these scribes used were styluses with sharp triangular tips , making it easy to leave markings on the clay , the clay tablets themselves came in a variety of colors such as bone white , chocolate , and charcoal . Pictographs then began to appear on clay tablets around 4000 BC , and after the later development of Sumerian cuneiform writing , a more sophisticated partial syllabic script evolved that by around 2500 BC was capable of recording the vernacular , the everyday speech of the common people . </P>
what tools did the sumerians use for writing
what tools did the sumerians use for writing
clay tablet styluses with sharp triangular tips
clay tablet styluses with sharp triangular tips