MCC-UE 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hohle Fels, Phoenician Alphabet, Record Label
27 Apr 2016
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60,000 bce, bone fragments with notches (middle east) > tallies. 35,000 bce clay venus figurines (germany hohle fels cave) Cave art (c. 40,000 bce in indonesia, turkey, europe) System of graphic symbols that can be used to convey thought. Path-dependence: modern technologies of photography, photography (etc. ) Tool of computation as well as storage device for literature . Remote control over people and property but also time and space . More writing in era of new media than ever before. Types of script (often overlap; combined in electronic communication): Ideograms: graphic symbols represent concepts or ideas. Logograms: a single character represents a complete word. Alphabet: each character represents a sound (consonant or vowel) 4,100 bce sumerian pictograms: pictorial representations of objects, on clay tablets. Rebus principle: idea that a pictographic symbol could be used for its phonetic value. Example: pictogram for arrow in sumerian, arrow was pronounced ti which also meant.
