The origins of cuneiform & hieroglyphic writing systems. The rebus principle is introduced via Cave Drawings, Narmer Palette, Hunters Palette, Cuneiform Accounting Tablets.
references (book):
– The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Drucker)
– Letter Perfect (David Sacks)
– Empire and Communications (Innis)
– The Science of Language (Chomsky)
web:
– http://cuneiform.library.cornell.edu/
– http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/
Stock footage thanks to:
– University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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really interesting… I love these video's!
but i think we all want quality not quantity 🙂
great job. waiting for next part!
"River" is pronounced correctly in this video.
I really enjoy these videos. The algorithmic efficiency video was also great
I love the last series on cryptography you made please keep up the good work!!!!!!
if you're interested, i'm sure this isn't the only information on Information Theory. You could google it? Also too, a good way to remember things is commonly through repetition. ^_^ I guess I'm fortunate to have not discovered this stuff, until they had made a few em.
Dat waz rly mart
Dat chick waz rly mart
Een menny languajazz
Thank you so much Brit for your video's!!Loved this one very interesting and totally understandable 😀
For anybody who enjoyed this video. A podcast called RadioLab (very boring name) uses similar presentation techniques to convey ideas. Albeit through audio. Extremely highly recommended if you commute or have any spare listening time.
Very cool. I like how you guys moved right into semiotics and the evolution of language as a relation between humans and their environment. The pictogram, ideogram, Rebus principle reminds me very loosely of C.S. Peirce's triad: icon, index, symbol.
funny how the views dropped to half from the first video
damn cavemen could paint better than me
BTW, the pictogram for middle. That is literally the Chinese charact for middle; zhong. Pronouced "jong". The word or phrase for China, in "Chinese" is "zhong guo" (jong gooah), literally meaning "middle country"
Wow, I am so pleasantly surprised by the quality of production and writing in these videos. Keep it up you guys— these series are amazing!!!
Did females hunt?
This is basically pretty good, but why on earth do you use "the mathematical symbol for all" in explaining Alice's abstraction of the sound from the concrete image?
oh my god. The video is great but the woman's vice is very high pitched and very irritating. The narrator at the beginning should've done the whole video.
terrible. vid
this is fake people were not around 30000 years ago
By any other term, Information theory is just collective memory, using many formats to record memory…
Really? 50 000 years ago? Tools and fire were in use for approximately 2&1/2 million years ago. How do, without language?
This series is excellent! Great telling of a profound story!
The sacred Ox, Taurus and Sagittarius the horseman