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CULTURE FOCUS Culture is accumulated using language. At first, culture was passed down orally from generation to generation. However, with the development of written language, culture has been preserved and passed down through written texts as well. Cultural Accumulation A Look at the pictures below. Think about how they are related to cultural accumulation. “Because the messenger’s mouth was heavy and he couldn’t repeat [the message], the Lord of Kulaba patted some clay and put words on it, like a tablet. Until then, there had been no putting words on clay.” — Sumerian epic poem “ Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta” . c.1800 BC cuneiform (쐐기문자) Writing began after pottery was invented. Clay tokens were used to record specific numbers of animals or products. An ancient Mesopotamian poem gives the first known story of the invention of writing: 1 Accumulated by oral language 2 Accumulated by written language 62 I Unit 3 Narratives in Cultural Sites