As people began to travel and mingle with other communities in ancient civilisations, a trading system was founded.Ĭuneiform script, which is the earliest writing system, is formed out of basic shapes which would have represented an object or a word. In our lecture, we began to find out how elaborate cave paintings of animals transformed over time to written language as we know of today. In the Bhimbetka cave it shows men riding on animals and poultry(early farming)
A great example of homo sapiens cognitive evolution (and possible spoken words) is the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka(c.100,000BC), where the cave paintings represent possible ordering of imagery, with images of humans riding on animals, rather than what appears to be random drawings of animals. Pictographs (a simple picture to represent a word) are used daily in our lives in public signs, however historically would have been used to be read as a language itself. Language has evolved over time throughout generations and lifestyles and other languages have branched out from these and have spread across the world (around 7000 in the world today) but have all come from a common ancestor. Then there is cultural conditioning, where we are taught to speak in a language or to write on paper, simple things we take for granted. We might use hand gestures to communicate to one another (everyone’s done it in their lifetime, when trying to quietly “talk” to someone else across a room). I rate it as very important.We have a “natural” language, which is crying out in pain from an injury or laughing with joy. "There is nothing in existence or in preparation to my knowledge that competes with the Walker text. The decipherment of cuneiform is explained and-for the collector-some guidelines for the identification of fake inscriptions are given. In addition, extracts from contemporary Sumerian literature and school texts give an account of the training of the scribes, and the various types of inscription they wrote are illustrated. Sample texts show how the script is analysed into words and syllables and how to read the names of the most famous kings as they appear on monuments.
This book surveys the development of the script from the earliest pictographic signs to the latest astronomical tablets and the process by which it came to be used for writing many different Near Eastern languages. Synopsis: The cuneiform writing system flourished in the Near East from before 3000 BC to AD 75.
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