Multiple MatchingExercise 62 of 70

Cuneiform, the wedge-shaped notation system impressed into wet clay tablets by means of a blunt reed stylus, constitutes humanity's earliest attested writing, with archaic proto-cuneiform tokens recovered from the Sumerian city of Uruk dating to approximately 3400 BCE. Its genesis was emphatically utilitarian: the…

• Which writing system's physical medium was ironically rendered virtually indestructible by the very catastrophes that destroyed the buildings in which it was stored?
• Which writing system can trace its evolutionary lineage back to a notation devised by manual workers in an extraction industry?