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Grade 12 MIL Lesson 2

This document discusses traditional media in pre-historic and ancient eras. In pre-historic times, media included petroglyphs, cave paintings, dance, and body art used in rituals and ceremonies. In ancient times, major developments were writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs, alphabets originating from Phoenician, the emergence of drama in Greece, and early forms of paper from papyrus in Egypt and bark-paper in Mesoamerica. Traditional media played important roles in communication, religion, and culture during these early periods.

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Grade 12 MIL Lesson 2

This document discusses traditional media in pre-historic and ancient eras. In pre-historic times, media included petroglyphs, cave paintings, dance, and body art used in rituals and ceremonies. In ancient times, major developments were writing systems like cuneiform and hieroglyphs, alphabets originating from Phoenician, the emergence of drama in Greece, and early forms of paper from papyrus in Egypt and bark-paper in Mesoamerica. Traditional media played important roles in communication, religion, and culture during these early periods.

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CHAPTER 2:The Evolution

of Traditional to New
Media.
PART 1: Pre-Historic Era & Ancient Era
OBJECTIVES:
Hopefully at the end of this lesson, learners should be able to:

1. Identify the traditional media and new media and their relationships;

2. Editorialize the roles and functions of media in a democratic society; and

3. Identify on the latest theory on information and media.


• PRE – HISTORIC ERA (200,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE)

I. PETROGLYPHS

II. CAVE PAINTING

III. DANCE

IV. BODY ART


I. PETROGLYPHS

-
WHAT ARE THEY?
- Petroglyphs are illustrations by abolishing
part of a rock surface by incising or carving, as a
form of rock art.

Around 7,000 to 9,000 years ago, other forerunners of writing systems, such
as pictographs and ideograms began to emerge. Petroglyphs are still
common though, some cultures continued using them much longer, even
until contact with western civilization was made in the 20th century.
II. CAVE PAINTINGS

WHAT ARE CAVE PAINTINGS?


- Cave painting (also known as “parietal art”)
are painted drawing on cave walls or ceilings,
mainly pre-historic descent, some 40,000 years
ago ( around 38,000 BCE) in both Asia and Europe.

Prehistoric man could have used the painting of animals on the walls of caves
to document their hunting expeditions.
Prehistoric people would have used natural objects
to paint the walls of the caves.
To etch into the rock, they could have used sharp
tools or a spear.
III. DANCE

WHAT IS DANCE IN THE PRE-HISTORIC ERA?


- From the earliest moments of known
human history, dance accompanied ancient rituals,
spiritual gatherings and social events. Period when
dancing became widespread can be traced to the
third millennia BC, when Egyptians started using
dance as integral parts of their religious ceremonies.

In most archaic civilization, dancing before the god was fundamental in temple
rituals. In Egypt the priests and priestesses, guided by harps and pipes,
perform ceremonial movements which mimed significant events in the story
of a god, or imitate cosmic patterns such as the cadence of night and day.
Archeological evidence for early dance includes 9,000 year old paintings in
India at the rock shelters of Bhimbetka, adn Egypt tomb paintings depicting
dancing figures, dated c. 3,300 BCE.
IV. BODY ART

WHAT IS IT?
- Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the

human body. Unlike tattoo and other forms of permanent


body art, body painting was temporary, painted in the
human skin and it usually lasts up to a day or at most a
couple of weeks.

Body painting with and other innate pigments existed in


most if not all tribal cultures. Often worn during ceremonies, this ancient form
of interpretation is still used among many indigenous people of the world
today. Tattoos, piercing, nose-ears-mouth plugs, Mehndi, henna, and
scarification are other ritual-based art forms. It is a momentous part of social,
spiritual, and personal expression.
• ANCIENT ERA ( 3,000 BCE – 100 CE )

I. WRITING
a) Cuneiform script
b) Egyptian Hieroglyphs

II. ALPHABETS
a) The Phoenician alphabet
b) The Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet/ “true” alphabet

III. DRAMA

IV. PAPER
I. WRITING

WHAT IS WRITING ? - is a medium of human communication that involves


the representation of a language with written symbols. Writing systems are
not themselves human languages; they are means of rendering a language
into a form that can be reconstructed by other humans separated by time
and/or space.

In traditional media, writing has two types in the Ancient Era these
are:

a) CUNEIFORM SCRIPT

b) EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS
a) CUNEIFORM SCRIPT

- is one of the earliest schemes of writing, identified by its wedge-shaped


marks on clay tablets, built by means of a blunt reed for stylus.

- this writing system was in use for more than three millennia, through
several points of development, from the 34th century BCE down to the second
century CE.
b) EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS

- are an orderly writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that


combined anagrammed and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive
hieroglyphs for religious articles on papyrus and wood.

- Early hieroglyphs dated back as far as 3,300 BCE , and continued to


used up until about 400 CE, when non-Christian temples were sealed and
their monumental use was no longer mandatory.
II. ALPHABET

WHAT IS ALPHABET? - a : a set of letters or other characters with which


one or more languages are written especially if arranged in a customary order. b
: a system of signs or signals that serve as equivalents for letters.

In traditional media, has “two types” pf alphabet in the Ancient Era


these are:

a) The Phoenician alphabet

b) The Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet/ “true” alphabet


a) THE PHOENICIAN ALPHABET

- called by tradition the Proto-Canaamite alphabet for epitaphs older


than around 1,050 BCE, is the oldest confirmed alphabet. It contains 22
letters, all or which are consonants.

- it was acquired from Egyptian Hieroglyphs and became one of the


most extensively used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants
across the Mediterranean world, where it expanded and was comprehended
by many other cultures.
b) “TRUE” ALPHABET/ THE GREEKS BORROWED THE PHOENICIAN
ALPHABET

- by at least the 8th century BCE the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician
alphabet and acclimated it to their own language, creating the development
the first “true” alphabet, in which vowels were bestowed balanced status with
consonants. According to Greek legends addressed by Herodotus, the
alphabet was carried from Phoenicia to Greece by Cadmos. The letters of the
Greek alphabet are alike as those of the Phoenician alphabet, and both
alphabets are organized in the same structure.
III. DRAMA

- is the clear-cut mode of narrative, commonly fictional, served in


performance.

- western drama comes from classical Greece. The theatrical culture of the
city-state of Athens generated three genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, and
the satyr play. Their bases remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE they
were regulated in competitions held as part of festivities celebrating the god
Dionysus.
IV. PAPER

- material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other


fibrous substances, used for writing, drawing, or printing on, or as wrapping
material.

- the word “paper” is grammatically derived from papyrus, Ancient Greek


for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a chunky, paper-like matter produced
from the core of the Cyperus papyrus plant which is used in ancient Egypt and
other Mediterranean cultures for writing way before the paper making in
china.

- in the Americas, archaeological evidence indicates that the Mayans used


a similar bark-paper writing material no later than 5th century CE called amatl,
it was in extensive use among Mesoamerican cultures until the Spanish
invasion. The paper is made by boiling then pounding the inner part of the
bark of trees, until it becomes applicable for art and writing.

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