EVOLUTION OF THE WRITTEN WORD CAVE DRAWINGS
CUNEIFORM
As one of the earliest forms of human
A form of primordial text, called
communication, drawings known as pictographs (an elementary picture or sketch representing the thing depicted), petroglyphs (a carved or scratched sign or simple figure on rock), and lastly ideographs (a symbol that represents an idea or concept).
cuneiform, also appeared. these
symbols and visual signals were developed by the Sumerian cultures of Mesopotamia, “the land between rivers,� as civilization became more advanced. Initially, these glyphs evolved from earlier cave drawings made by Neanderthals.
15000 35000 ---4000 BCE
GREEK ALPHABET
The ancient Greeks devised
750 BCE
their own form of writing -- the Greek Alphabet. Influenced by Phoenician/Semitic heritage, the Greeks applied a geometric structure to establish a form of visual ordr and balance.
2800 BCE
1500 BCE THE ALPHABET
Advancing civilization gave rise to new ways of communicating;
The Phaistos Disk.
cultures like the Minoan civilization of Crete developed an alphabet (a set of visual symbols or characters used to represent the elementary sounds of a spoken language). Evidence of this new system was found on the unearthed Phaistos disk. It was also discovered that the Minoans used principles of moveable type (type-like stamps used to impress characters onto substrates to create words and sentences).