CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sumer, Formal Language
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Communication (transferring information or ideas from one to another or one to many) Medium/media (the latter is plural of the former; they are tools to deliver and/or store ideas and/or information) Rather, a study of history has come to be understood in the way that it has a history of history, in a sense. Early prehistoric ancestors (~100,000 years ago) communicated with non-verbal gestures and an evolving system of spoken language. From the later pre-historic period (say 50,000 to 10,000 bce), we have found an array of more sophisticated communicative gestures . Willendorf is: about 25,000 years old, found in willendorf in what is now germany, obviously an early communicative artifact. Can be interpreted as a communicative gesture. Differ from formal language because: no grammar (rules for using them, no syntax (rules for order and sequence, no lexicon (shared vocabulary, but, they are clearly evidence of communication through media. As schmandt- besserat notes, we also find in the period approx.
