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History of communication
Communication is the ability to share information. We need communication..Communication is a process that started perhaps even before we knew how to write or spell the word communication". Communication is perhaps dated back to the advent of life itself.
Here is an attempt to trace back the origins of communication: Body Language: A friendly handshake, a gracious smile or even a warm hug. Body language is communication through simple body gestures. The time of emergence of body language cannot be precisely or accurately calculated or calculated. However the use of body language as means of communication has always been compared to communication modes used by animals. Speech: The available fossil evidence hints that modern adaptations for speech appeared somewhere between 1.5 million and 500,000 years ago.
Writing: The history of writing dates back to the various writing systems that evolved in the Early Bronze Age (late 4th millennium BC) out of Neolithic proto-writing. For convenience we will classify the evolution of writing into the following sub-categories: * Symbols * Cave Paintings * Petroglyphs/ Rock Carvings * Pictograms * Ideograms * Writing
Symbols:Symbols developed as a communication tool that not only ensures better understanding but also increased longevity of the message. Cave Paintings: The Upper Paleolithic cave paintings, which are a type of rock art are the oldest known symbols. The oldest known cave painting is that of the Chauvet Cave dating back to 30,000 BC. Pictograms: Pictograms have been sighted in the history of various ancient cultures since around 9000 BC. The pictograms gave way to the evolution of Cuneiform script, which is considered as the earliest known form of written expression. Ideogram: An ideogram is an advanced version of the pictogram. It is a visual or graphic symbol that represents an idea. Ideograms are the source of inception for most of the logographic writing systems like the Chinese script. The invention of the first writing systems is supposed to be synonymous with the beginning of the Bronze Age in the late Neolithic of the late 4th millennium BC. The first writing system was supposedly invented in the Sumerian regime during the 20th or 21st century BC, by the late 3rd millennium developing into the archaic cuneiform script. The Egyptian proto-hieroglyphic symbol system developed into archaic hieroglyphs by 3200 BC and more widespread literacy by the mid third millennium, which was the time of the Pyramid Texts. The Indus script developed over the third millennium, either as a form of proto-writing, or an archaic mode of writing. The Chinese script is said to have originated independently around the 16th century BC. The Alphabets: The Egyptians were the first to come up with an alphabetical system around 2700 BC which consisted of 22 heiroglyphs. Each heiroglyph began with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the speaker. This script passed on to many other civilizations and inspired different alphabetical systems like the Phoenician alphabets, Arabic scripts, Hebrew, Latin alphabets, Italic alphabets, Glagolithic alphabets or the Cyrillic alphabets.
