Monday, July 21, 2008

Abstract paintings

Abstract paintings
Angel painting
Back then it was really a technical profession," says David Testen, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. "You didn't just pick up a piece of clay and piece of reed."And that's important because "these texts really tell us where our roots are. It allows us to see patterns of human behavior and why we do what we do," says Collins. "This is probably our best way of seeing those interactions on the ground," says Testen. The Evolution of LanguageThe writing we know today, with an alphabet representing sounds, and words representing objects and ideas, evolved from the ancient "word pictures," scholars say. The "word picture" system eventually included more than 700 signs — too cumbersome, both to write and remember.

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