CS100 Lecture 3: Tallies
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Earliest precursor to writing, a history of data storage denise schmandt-besserat. Stone age: simplest tools, made of stone. Bronze age: first useful metal humans learned how to create. Define an entire culture by the use of tools. Human are ill-equipped without tools (cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:455) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t that helps us a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plish so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that (cid:449)e (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t o(cid:374) our o(cid:449)(cid:374)(cid:863) The stone ages: paleo to neolithic (dates different by location) Upper paleo & mesolithic: 28,000 10,000 bce, beginning of domestication, crops and/or animals. Neolithic age: 10,200 8800 bce, beginning of serious farming, settling down and building, start specializing in a profession, expert, different jobs. People across the continent of europe began doing this around the same time, as the level of their development began to demand tools to help sort through ideas. A symbol is anything which is shorthand for anything else: e. g. tattoos, so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) k(cid:374)o(cid:449) dire(cid:272)tl(cid:455)
