[tutorials] TTC - Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity (2013)

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Can you imagine the worldor your lifewithout writing? From emails to street signs and newspapers to novels, the written word is so ever-present that we rarely stop to consider how it came to be.
Yet at just over 5,000 years old, writing is actually a relatively recent invention. It has become so central to the way we communicate and live, however, that it often seems as if writing has always existed.

Through writing, we gain knowledge about past cultures and languages we couldnt possibly obtain any other way. Writing creates a continuous historical recordsomething an oral history could never achieve. And writing systems are integral to many cultural identities and serve as both a tool and a product of many important societal structures, from religion to politics.

The fundamental role and impact of writing in our civilization simply cannot be overstated. But the question remains: Who invented writing, and why?

Like any event from our prehistoric past, the story of writings origins is burdened by myths, mysteries, and misinformation. For the past two centuries, however, dedicated scholars have used rigorous methods to uncover a tale of intrigue, fascinating connections, and elegant solutions to the complex problem of turning language into text.

In the 24 visually intensive lectures of Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity, youll trace the remarkable saga of the invention and evolution of visible speech, from its earliest origins to its future in the digital age. Professor Marc ZenderVisiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and an accomplished epigrapherwhisks you around the globe on a thrilling journey to explore how an array of sophisticated writing systems developed, then were adopted and adapted by surrounding Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernitycultures.


Course No. 2241

Professor Marc Zender

Two MP3 audio files @ 128 Kbps, 44kHz.
Part 1 = Lectures 1 - 12, 6 Hrs
Part 2 = Lectures 13 - 24, 6 Hrs

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01 What Is Writing?
02 The Origins and Development of Writing
03 Where Did Our Alphabet Come From?
04 The Fuark A Germanic Alphabet
05 Chinese - A Logosyllabic Script
06 Japanese - The Worlds Most Complex Script
07 What Is Decipherment?
08 The Five Pillars of Decipherment
09 Epigraphic Illustration
10 The History of Language
11 Proper Nouns and Cultural Context
12 Bilinguals, Biscripts, and Other Constraints
13 Egyptian - The First Great Decipherment
14 What Do Egyptian Hieroglyphs Say?
15 Old PersianCuneiform Deciphered
16 What Does Cuneiform Say?
17 Mycenaean Linear B An Aegean Syllabary
18 Mayan GlyphsA New World Logosyllabary
19 What Do the Mayan Glyphs Say?
20 Aztec Hieroglyphs - A Recent Decipherment
21 Etruscan and Merotic - Undeciphered Scripts
22 Han'gul, Tengwar, and Other Featural Scripts
23 Medium and Message
24 The Future of Writing


Dr. Marc Zender is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and a research associate in Harvard Universitys Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program. He earned his Honors B.A. in Anthropology from The University of British Columbia and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Calgary.

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