TARGOVISTE — NOVEMBER 21–22 & 27–28 — MCDSARE 2023 — ROMANIA

300,000 (AT LEAST) YEARS FOR HOMO SAPIENS TO DEVELOP WRITING

FULL ARTICLE

https://www.academia.edu/109165564/300_000_AT_LEAST_YEARS_FOR_HOMO_SAPIENS_TO_DEVELOP_WRITING

From the article just published in Psychology Research, “300,000 (at Least) Years for Homo Sapiens to Develop Writing: A Review of Silvia Ferrara’s The Greatest Invention, Tr. Todd Portnowitz“ to my presentation on Monday 20, November 2023 on DISJUNCTURE vs REVOLUTION, POSTGRESSION vs. PROGRESSION, the central question of the emergence of language and the passage from oral language to writing will be central in the IFIASA MCDSARE 2023 conference, Boerescu Zaharia, Târgoviște, Dâmbovița, Romania https://www.ifiasa.com/mcdsare-event

A video presentation covering the first part of the general topic with the newly discovered Hominin Homo Naledi in South Africa in the background, on the IFIASA site, presents this Hominin who had reached the level of transcribing his oral language into symbolical geometric signs around 300,000 BCE. Compare this with Neanderthals who did the same thing in Gibraltar around 100,000 BCE and with Homo Sapiens who did the same thing in his European and Indonesian caves…