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古文字学家普遍认定人类最早的文字是象形文字,可最近有人对此提出疑议,认为人类最早的文字不是象形文字,而是泥罐上的图案。提出这一观点的是美国德州著名考古学家史迈特·贝塞特教授。贝塞特几年中在伊朗、伊拉克、以色列、土耳其、叙利亚等中东地区的116处发现了8000余枚小泥块,呈圆球形、环形、三角形或其它几何图形。这些泥块是用以记录和计算农作物的收成的。部落首领把它们藏在密封的泥罐里,并在泥罐外标上一些图案,说明罐内藏有多少枚什么形状的小泥块。由此,泥罐外的图案就成了人类文字的起源。
Ancient philosophers generally recognized the earliest human language is hieroglyphic text, but some people have recently questioned this, that the earliest human text is not a hieroglyph, but the pattern on the clay pot. This viewpoint is made by Professor Smet Beiseet, a famous German archeologist in the United States. Becet discovered over 8,000 pieces of small mud in 116 locations in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey and Syria in the Middle East over the past few years in the form of spheres, rings, triangles or other geometric figures. These clods are used to record and calculate crop yields. The tribal chiefs hid them in a sealed clay pot and marked some patterns on the outside of the clay pot indicating how many small pieces of clay the pot contains. As a result, the pattern outside the clay pot became the source of human language.