世界古代文字介绍.pptVIP

Ancient Writing Pre-requisites for Civilization Agriculture developed in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 bce Mining and use of copper around 6000 bce Growth of villages and towns Division of labor Smelting of tin and copper to make bronze around 3000 bce Bronze Age Invention of Writing Writing developed on the basis of earlier existing pictographs and ideographs-- pictures began to be used to denote syllables of sound, not meaning alone Modern humans began drawing pictures 40,000 years ago (San in SW Africa, Australian Aborigines, Cro-Magnon in southwest Europe). True writing is tho