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Topic: History of Communication Skills

Addressed By: Saira Bano


Primitive times
• Since primitive times, significant changes in communication technologies (media
and appropriate inscription tools) have evolved in tandem with shifts in political
and economic systems, and by extension, systems of power. Communication can
range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass
communication. Human communication was revolutionized with the origin of
speech approximately 500,000 BCE. Symbols were developed about 30,000 years
ago. The imperfection of speech, which nonetheless allowed easier dissemination
of ideas and eventually resulted in the creation of new forms of communications,
improving both the range at which people could communicate and the longevity
of the information. All of those inventions were based on the key concept of the
symbol.
• The oldest known symbols created for the purpose of communication were cave
paintings, a form of rock art, dating to the Upper Paleolithic age. The oldest
known cave painting is located within Chauvet Cave, dated to around 30,000 BC.
[1] These paintings contained increasing amounts of information: people may
have created the first calendar as far back as 15,000 years ago.
• a petroglyph is an image carved, incised or scratched into stone.
• pictograph is a painting on stone, using natural
pigments. Pictographs are typically found only in caves or other
areas where they can be protected from the elements of sunshine,
wind-blown sand and precipitation.
• : the most important difference between petroglyphs and pictograms
is that petroglyphs are simply showing an event, but pictograms are
telling a story about the event, thus they can for example be ordered
chronologically.
• Hieroglyphs “picture writing”
• Religious purposes
• Only priests knew how to write
• 24 letter alphabets
• Rosetta stone
• Ideograms:
Pictograms, in turn, evolved into ideograms, graphical symbols that
represent an idea. Their ancestors, the pictograms, could represent
only something resembling their form: therefore a pictogram of a circle
could represent a sun, but not concepts like 'heat', 'light', 'day' or 'Great
God of the Sun'. Ideograms, on the other hand, could convey more
abstract concepts, so that for example an ideogram of two sticks can
mean not only 'legs' but also a verb 'to walk'.
• Ideograms were precursors of logographic writing systems such as
Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters
Petroglyphs
pictograph
Heiroglyphs
• Sumerians and writing
• Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the
Mesopotamia region of the Fertile Crescent situated
between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Known for
their innovations in language, governance, architecture
and more, Sumerians are considered the creators of
civilization as modern humans understand it.
• Indo European group
• Cuneiforms
• 400 symbols
Cuneiforms
The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved
Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated to
about 1754 BC (Middle Chronology). ... Nearly half of
the code deals with matters of contract, establishing the wages
to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon 
Story-telling
• Verbal communication is one of the earliest forms of human communication, the oral tradition of storytelling has dated
back to various times in history. The development of communication in its oral form can be categorized based on certain
historical periods. The complexity of oral communication has always been reflective based on the circumstance of the
time period. Verbal communication was never bound to one specific area, instead, it had and continues to be a globally
shared tradition of communication. People communicated through song, poems, and chants, as some examples. People
would gather in groups and pass down stories, myths, and history. Oral poets from Indo-European regions were known
as "weavers of words" for their mastery over the spoken word and ability to tell stories. Nomadic people also had oral
traditions that they used to tell stories of the history of their people to pass them on to the next generation.

• Nomadic tribes have been the torch bearers of oral storytelling. Nomads of Arabia are one example of the many nomadic
tribes that have continued through history to use oral storytelling as a tool to tell their histories and the story of their
people. Due to the nature of nomadic life, these individuals were often left without architecture and possessions to call
their own, and often left little to no traces of themselves. The richness of the nomadic life and culture is preserved by
early Muslim scholars who collect the poems and stories that are handed down from generation to generation. Poems
created by these Arabic nomads are passed down by specialists known as sha'ir. These individuals spread the stories and
histories of these nomadic tribes, and often in times of war, would strengthen moral within members of given tribes
through these stories.
• In its natural form, oral communication was, and has continued to be one of the best ways for humans to spread their
message, history, and traditions to the world.

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