Chapter 1 & 2 Terms Flashcards
Are symbols which are carved or scratched on rock.
This represents some kind of not-yet-fully understood symbolic or ritual language.
Petroglyph
Are a concrete representation of an object in the physical world. Some scholars say these are the first paintings, or the first attempts at graphic communication.
Are useful for conveying information through a common visual language and are able to be understood regardless of one’s native language .
Pictograph
As the civilization advanced, the writing tool shifted to a triangular-tipped stylus. This is wedge-shaped writing that originated from ancient Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
They are visuals composed together in order to represent a sound. They can be in any form of writing such as Hieroglyphics.
Phonograms
Unlike the Mesopotamians, Egyptians retained a picture-writing system. These consisted of pictographs and phonograms. and ideograms
HIEROGLYPHICS
A hieroglyph of a cross with a loop. It is a symbol that originated in Ancient Egypt that represents life and sometimes death.
ANKH
A written symbol that represents an idea of a thing rather than representing a particular word or sounds. Chinese characters are a great example of this and so are hieroglyphics since their symbols are both used to represent ideas instead of words.
IDEOGRAM/GRAPH
Famous Palaeolithic cave paintings that consist of large animals found in south western France.
LASCAUX CAVES
It is a writing material like paper used to write, draw, or paint stuff on it. It originated from Ancient Egypt and the material comes from strips of reedy plant stems and they are all overlaid over one another to create the material. This was a common writing material at the time.
Papyrus
A great example of this could be Hieroglyphics; This is a combination of pictures and letters that are used to represent words. Pictographs, phonograms, and symbols for sounds, would all work together in this type of writing.
Rebus Writing
A professional who writes books or documents in order to keep track of important records.
Scribe
Were people who were part of an ancient civilization who created their own alphabets and language and they were the people of modern day Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
Phoenicians
is the source for all the modern scripts of Europe. The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, changing five consonants to vowels—what we now know as “a, e, i, o, u”. This alphabet was the world’s first true alphabet
Greek Alphabet
The Romans refined and added to the Latin alphabet as the basis for the uppercase alphabet that we know today. They refined the art of handwriting, fashioning distinctive styles of lettering.
Latin Alphabet
A serif is the ends/ finishing lines of a letter. Each serif is different depending on the font and depending on the writing materials and surfaces used to make the letters, which play an important role in serifs.
Serif
