The beginning of
creating ways to communicate with other occurred much earlier then most people
think. Before language and verbal communication was even around there was
another way. There is strong evidence of cave paintings that were used to
commutate with others. This makes perfect sense that even in today’s age
many children learn how to draw before they can talk. This was the
beginning of a long line of communication advances. These paintings were
the first form of symbols. When communication is broken down it can be
traced back to the use of symbols. Symbols are used always in language,
texts, and in creating todays communication technology. Symbols were first bricks of
communication. After cave paintings came
pictograms. Pictograms are simply
symbols that represent a overall concept.
Civilizations like the Egyptians used these to communicate but mostly to
tell stories that could be passed on from generation to generation. If you fast forward time, we can see that in modern
day we use symbols in our communication technology in the forms of letters to
make words. Without these symbols we
would not have a language today.
