History Of Communication Timeline
TIMELINE: HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION
(with special reference to the development of the motorcycle)
35,000 BCE.
First paleolithing "petroglyphs" and written symbols. This is important in the history of communication because it marks the first time humans left a recorded form of communication. Also, these written symbols became the ultimate source of later alphabets.
Wikipedia, "Petroglyph."
12,600 BCE.
Cave paintings at Lascaux show early representational art. This is important in the history of communication because the caves depict over 2000 figures, including abstract symbols. More recent research suggests these may record astronomical information.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Lascaux."
3400 BCE.
First surviving Sumerian pictograms demonstrate a primitive form of record keeping. This is important in the history of communication because pictograms, together with ideograms, represent a primitive form of writing, in which a symbol either means what it looks like, or represents a single idea.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Pictogram."
3300 BCE.
Invention of the wheel will transform transportation and communication both. This is important in the history of communication because the earliest wheeled vehicles in the Chalcolithic period would coincide with the domestication of the horse, making long-distance transportation easier.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Wheel."
3100 BCE.
Earliest surviving Egyptian hieroglyphs represent a form of priestly writing kept alive by a literate elite. This is important in the history of communication because, as a form of writing practiced only by a small minority, the ability to read hieroglyphics became lost at some point in the early Common Era, and would not be re-gained until the nineteenth century.
SOURCE: Wikipedia., "Egyptian Hieroglyphs."
3100 BCE.
Horses first tamed and used for transportation in Asia and Asia minor, most likely on the Eurasian steppes. This is important in the history of communication because now people were communicating regularly with horses, which may not have been intellectually stimulating but could definitely provide a faster way to traverse the Eurasian steppes.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Domestication of the Horse."
3000 BCE.
First recorded use of an Abacus, a primitive computing device that nonetheless is the conceptual forerunner of the present day personal computer. This is important in the history of communication because it represents a use of symbology to capture abstract mathematical concepts.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Abacus"
3000 BCE.
First use of Sumerian writing system, cuneiform, which marks the first move toward a symbolic alphabet. This is important in the history of communication because it is the foundation of written communication still in use today.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Cuneiform."
3000-2400 BCE.
Earliest surviving papyrus scrolls testify to human use of written communication. This is important in the history of communication because papyrus is the origin of the modern word and concept of "paper," still used for communication in parts of the world.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Papyrus."
2000 BCE.
Earliest recorded postal system in Egypt. This is important in the history of communication because now written communication -- which in most forms is likely to stay put, unless (e.g.) it is written on the side of a large moving animal (with the further additional difficulties entailed in having to catch and subdue such an animal long enough to write a legible message) -- now has a reliable way for communicating across longer distances.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Mail."
2000 BCE.
Earliest recorded invention of the chariot. This is important in the history of communication because people can now use chariots to travel longer distances to communicate. It is unlikely that they were able to communicate while riding on a chariot, except to their horses.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Chariot."
2000 BCE.
Probable date of Stonehenge, a monument whose meaning is still hotly contested (cf. The popular but fallacious characterization by St. Hubbins and Tufnel, 1984), but most likely represents an attempt to keep track of astronomical phenomena on the part of a pre-literate society. This is important in the history of communication because records of the movements of the stars often represented information transmitted across generations, and thus was seen worthy of a more permanent record.
SOURCE: "Stonehenge" (St. Hubbins, David and Tufnel, Nigel: Polymer, 1984).
1200 BCE-1050 BCE.
Oracle bone script testifies to earliest use of written language in China. This is important in the history of communication because now Chinese people could finally use a written form of communication. It is also the earliest source for later Chinese written language, including ones used today.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Oracle Bone Script."
295 BCE.
Foundation of the Library of Alexandria, which would become the largest repository of information in the Classical world. This is important in the history of communication because it represented an attempt to concentrate all world knowledge in a single location, a goal presently being attempted with different technological means by Google.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, "Library of Alexandria"
300 BCE-68 CE.
Dead Sea scrolls composed, mostly written in Hebrew, giving a rare glimpse into the range of
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