CAS XL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gansu, Shang Dynasty, Mahabharata
2 Feb 2020
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Character scripts: not only for aesthetic but to describe one word in different ways for e. g. the use of. Today"s topics: brief history of writing media. The first place writings appeared were on turtle shells. The shang dynasty used turtle shells plastrons to write on. Bronze was also used by a scribe qiang, late. A lot of problems with being fake and forgery and the other problem is that they were tied together with leather which rotted away and hence, piecing together the bamboo strips is fairly hard. Earliest known extant paper fragment unearthed in gansu. Texts start getting longer as people don"t need to carry bamboo along. Palm leaf manuscript south and southeast asia: because these leaves were commonly found in south india, whereas in north india they used different materials. They were first used by buddhists since in. Hindu tradition most of it was passed down orally. Everything in south asia was tied into religious communities.
