Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Homo Naledi Meets Silvia Ferrara

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/homo-naledi-meets-silvia-ferrara-06c8b4f50b29

Homo Naledi at IFIASA 2023, Romania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_Vmm78v_M, 43 minutes 24

A full presentation of Homo Naledi and what he means for archaeology and anthropology. He buried his dead in underground caves. He inscribed symbolic hashtags and other geometric forms on the walls of the main burial chamber over the graves. He had reached the first stage of symbolic writing, the engravings representing a few ritualistic oral formulas. Just one step before symbolical signs for phonemes and/or syllables, the opening gate to alphabetical writing.

The development of Writing at IFIASA 2023, Romania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Ak77DFPoo, 51 minutes 29

A full presentation of what happened after the lecture on Homo Naledi, moving from symbolical non-representational mostly geometric inscriptions and engravings to symbolical signs for phonemes and syllables that lead to alphabetical writing, a generally progressive evolution with cases like Egyptian hieroglyphs and Maya glyphs that kept their old Holistic representational structures and yet became phonetic for syllables or ancillary "words." What is writing the extension of, in Marshall McLuhan's line?

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

These two videos basically discuss provocative questions, which leaves established people in this field of research very hostile because it requires a complete restructuring of the timeline of human language, the phylogeny of this human language, and the communication it enables.

Homo Naledi Meets Silvia Ferrara

Jacques Coulardeau

2023 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

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