mod5videoactivity (1) Essays - Writing Systems, Human Behavior

Alexandria Smith ANT3620 February sixteenth, 2019 Module 5 Video Activity The speaker, Mr. Mafundikwa erroneously marks and dates cuneiform. At the point when Mr. Mafundikwa is underlining humanities most prominent creation as the letters in order and names cuneiform as a source, this mark of letter set being given to cuneiform is erroneous. Cuneiform isn't a letter set since it doesn't have letters that speak to sounds, rather it is a composing framework that started as ideographic, where pictures spoke to a thought, and later on formed into a logographic composing structure where an image signifies a word, and in cuneiform that implied wedge-like images squeezed into mud so as to shape images; so there are no letters in cuneiform, as appeared in the Module 5 talk entitled Composing. The second misstep he makes about cuneiform is in a similar proclamation when he is endeavoring to put Egyptian hieroglyphics as a more established composing framework, very nearly 200-300 years more seasoned than cuneiform. Cuneiform was not made in 1600 BC, as he asserted, but instead just about two centuries before the date he gave in 3300 BC as expressed in Module 5 talk entitled Composing. Mr. Mafundikwa's primary concern about Africa and composing frameworks is to accentuate their quality in Africa's history and their significance proceeding onward into what's to come. He needs to stretch that viewing Africa's history you can discover the entirety of the regular topics that have appeared to be worried about other extraordinary civic establishments with African advancements found in a similar time span, for example, composed language, engineering, strict and social customs. He specifies the mystery social orders of the Yoruba, Kango, and Palo religions that made unpredictable composing frameworks, much the same as he referenced the Jokwe individuals who made a pictograph telling the production of the world; a story we see told by numerous human advancements. He is urging Africans to utilize African past as their hotspot for past data and their motivation for future creation. His slip-ups about cuneiform deducts from his believability, however he is as yet making an adm irable statement that he needs Africans to truly consider African to be as an extraordinary and full history, qualified to be viewed as significant in human advancement after some time and to be pondered and based upon by people in the future, rather than looking for somewhere else for motivation.