History Of Writing Timeline
The first writing writing has its origins in the strip of fertile land stretching from the nile up into the area often referred to as the fertile crescent.
History of writing timeline. Seshat first mentioned as goddess of writing and measurement in the 2nd dynasty of the early dynastic period of egypt. In the history of how writing systems have evolved in different human civilizations more complete writing systems were preceded by proto writing systems of ideographic or early mnemonic symbols symbols or letters that make remembering. Life of enheduanna daughter of sargon of akkad and world s first author known by name.
Writing records the lives of a people and so is the first necessary step in the written history of a culture or civilization. It was used by making undried clay slabs and using reeds to scratch pictographs into it. The ugaritic alphabet contains 30 different letters and is a type of cuneiform.
From the 15th century bc. 2890 bce 2670 bce. Introduction paradigmatically writing is the representa tion of speech.
Olson the history of writing depends critically upon what we mean by writing. The strongest quills were those taken from living birds in the spring from the five outer left wing feathers. Beginning of literature in sumerian.
The history of writing david r. Cuneiform this writing style imerged near sumer. With the new theory and practice there has been a.
2285 bce 2250 bce. It has been driven by research and theory. But what then about the visual signs and symbols that humans created and continue to create sometimes for com munication purposes other times for sheer.
History of writing timeline created by ally098. A prime example of this problem is the difficulty scholars of the late 19th early 20th centuries ce had in understanding the maya civilization in that they could not read the glyphs of the maya and so wrongly. Introduced around the year 700 the quill is a pen made from a bird feather.
The writing instrument that dominated for the longest period in history over one thousand years was the quill pen. A timeline created with timetoast s interactive timeline maker. Phonetics and the alphabet.
The most significant development in the history of writing since the first development of a script in about 3200 bc is the move from a pictographic or syllabic system characteristic of sumerian ancient egyptian and chinese to a phonetic one based on recording the spoken sound of a word. This alphabet was formed for the ugaritic language a northwest semitic language that no longer exists. The history of writing traces the development of expressing language by letters or other marks and also the studies and descriptions of these developments.
