1/28/2004   slide 6
First Graphics
(intertwined with history of technology and culture)
•35,000 – 4000BC Cave paintings
•2000sBC: first writing systems (“visual counterpart of speech”) p4HGD
–Pictographs
–Cuneiform
–Beginnings of hieroglyphics
•1000sBC: Egyptians create first illustrated manuscripts—combining images and writing
cuneiform writing
Lascaux
Pictures-to-letters
Hieroglyphics + pictures
P29

Phoenician cuneiform from
http://phoenicia.org/imgs/ugaritmrzh.jpg
From
http://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html#mother

Lasceauz: 15,000 – 10,000BC
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/images/cave_painting_l.jpg

Pictograms, cuneiform images
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html

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Detail from
http://colophon.com/gallery/minsky/6C.htm

Different writing systems: http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/List_of_Scripts.html