mod5videoactivity (1) Essays - Writing Systems, Human Behavior

Alexandria Smith ANT3620 February sixteenth, 2019 Module 5 Video Activity The speaker, Mr. Mafundikwa mistakenly marks and dates cuneiform. At the point when Mr. Mafundikwa is accentuating humanities most noteworthy creation as the letter set and names cuneiform as a source, this mark of letter set being given to cuneiform is mistaken. Cuneiform isn't a letters in order 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 earth so as to shape images; so there are no letters in cuneiform, as appeared in the Module 5 talk entitled Composing. The second error he makes about cuneiform is in a similar articulation when he is endeavoring to put Egyptian hieroglyphics as a more seasoned composing framework, very nearly 200-300 years more established than cuneiform. Cuneiform was not made in 1600 BC, as he guaranteed , yet rather very nearly two centuries before the date he gave in 3300 BC as expressed in Module 5 talk entitled Composing. Mr. Mafundikwa's central matter about Africa and composing frameworks is to stress their essence 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 basic topics that have appeared to be worried about other incredible human advancements with African improvements found in a similar time allotment, for example, composed language, engineering, strict and social customs. He specifies the mystery social orders of the Yoruba, Kango, and Palo religions that made complex 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 civic establishments. He is urging Africans to utilize African past as their hotspot for past data and their motivation for future creation. His errors about cuneiform deducts from his believability, yet he is as yet making an admirable sentiment that he needs Africans to truly consider African to be as an extraordinary and full history, qualified to be viewed as significant in human improvement after some time and to be thought about and based upon by people in the future, rather than looking for somewhere else for motivation.