CS100 Study Guide - Cai Lun, Lady Gaga, Arbitrariness

• School: WLU
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CS100
• Professor: Ghislain Thibault

Document Summary

The colour black and the symbols standing for death ex. First use of symbols in the middle paleolithic period. First, pieces of ocher were recovered in the cave of qafzel, israel: second set of evidence consists of funerary paraphernalia, such as flowers/antlers deposited in burial sites- suggests ritual function. Linear markings viewed as referring to discrete and concrete entities: notches signs of promoting the accumulation of knowledge for specific ends, use of signs to communicate factual information followed the use of symbols in ritual. If this is true, this indicates the first step of data processing: notched signs abstracted data in several ways, translated concrete information into abstract markings, removed data from their context (ex. Neolithic system: primary singularly of the tokens is that they were entirely manmade. Tokens were artifacts created in specific shapes from an amorphous clay mass for the unique purpose of communication and keeping record.