CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 10Th Millennium Bc, Quipu, Stone Age
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Ancient data storage & documentation media: neanderthals and tallies, neolithic era and tokens, incan empire and quipu, ancient sumer and cuneiform & clay, ancient egypt and papyrus & hieroglyphics. A: people across the continent of europe began doing this around the same times, as the level of their development began to demand tools to help sort through ideas. Symbols vs sign: a symbol is anything which is shorthand for anything else, a sign has a narrow precise unambiguous meaning. Neolithic age: advent of tokens: middle paleolithic, 60000 to 25000 bce neanderthals. Upper paleo & mesolithic: 28000 10000 bce. From stone to papyrus: like tokens: economic record, in contrast with stone, papyrus as a writing medium was extremely light , by escaping from the heavy medium of stone thought gained lightness . Writing and: bureaucracy, taxes, civil service: privileged literate class (2000 bc forward) o eloquence.
