LIN 345 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gematria, Determinative, Michael Ventris
22 Jan 2020
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Writing - technology (which means it was invented) that makes it possible for a person who knows a given writing system and spoken language that it represents to exactly repeat someone else"s words in a spoken language. C or v; symbols to represent consonant and vowel sounds. C+modified vowel; alpha-syllabary; consonants and vowels written, but vowels are secondary (ex. Cv or v; each symbol represents a syllable (ex. Humans split off from chimpanzees about 5 million years ago. From there, humans gradually expanded their habitat, the last of which to be inhabited by them was oceania. Most experimental studies are done with weird people (western, educated, Normal person hasn"t experienced any of the effects of the technological revolution of the last. 10,000 years almost no one on earth today is normal . Two types of intensive land use: agriculture/farming and pastoralism/herding. Sedentarism - building permanent shelters/housing; usually followed by the rapid expansion of technology.
