Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind

Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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INTRODUCTION
25 were found in caves in Uzbekistan (U.S.S.R.) in the summer months of 1945. "In April, 1946, an expedition led by Professor A. P. Potselugevsky, a linguist, discovered very ancient cave paintings in the Kara Kalin region of Turkmenia" (I. Borozdin). For Central Asia and Siberia see, for instance, A. N. Tallgren, Inner Asiatic and Siberian Rock Pictures, "EURASIA," etc., 1933,
The ideas of writing and drawing were identical in prehistoric Egypt and in early Greece, as it is shown by the Egyptian word s-sh and by the Greek graphein, which mean both writing" and "drawing." The word graphein gave us the main component of many words connected with writing, such as pictography, calligraphy, Stenography, iconography, and so forth.
Iconography (the first component of this term, through the Latinized form, derives from Greek eikon, "image") is the most primitive stage of
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Fig. 5 Conventionalized figures of men and animals, animated objects, geometrical symbols, and so forth, from the U.S.A., especially California (1), Arizona (2).
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representing thought. As the French scholar Maurice Dunand points out, iconography suggests a static impression, and not definite ideas
other. The order of the representations is not that of the words in a discourse; all the articulations giving detailed information are wanting, and the contents are generally ambiguous. Iconography is generally used for the arrangement of pictures representing familiar subjects.