Author : Clyde Winters
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532967368
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (673 download)
Book Synopsis Archaeological Decipherment of Ancient Writing Systems by : Clyde Winters
Download or read book Archaeological Decipherment of Ancient Writing Systems written by Clyde Winters and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Archaeological Decipherment of Ancient Writing Systems I explain how archaeological evidence indicates that African literacy began in the Sahara over 5000 years ago . This earliest form of writing was a syllabic system , we call Thinite, that included hundreds of phonetic signs, which over time was shorten to between 22 and 30 key signs, and used as an alphabet by the Mande people of the Fezzan and Niger Valley, Dravidian speaking people in India, the Sumerians , Elamites, the Xi (Olmecs), Egyptians, Meroites, Phonesians and Ethiopians.