Amazing what the human race has accomplished

[Quasar44]

As a species : we’re almost brand new at 250,000 yrs or so

If you just examine the last few centuries it’s utterly astounding!!
From mastering electricity to computers to jet rocket engines to discovering planets and stars on the far side of the Milky Way

Maybe time travel and visiting the stars might be beyond us but it’s amazing that we accomplished more in the last 200 yrs than the previous 200,000

 

[Mark Richard]

Just imagine with the world will look like in a hundred years

 

[Carl in Michigan]

As a species : we’re almost brand new at 250,000 yrs or so

If you just examine the last few centuries it’s utterly astounding!!
From mastering electricity to computers to jet rocket engines to discovering planets and stars on the far side of the Milky Way

Maybe time travel and visiting the stars might be beyond us but it’s amazing that we accomplished more in the last 200 yrs than the previous 200,000

"Man" was created 6,000 years ago. There is debate as to the humanoid creatures that roamed the earth before that, but at the creation of Man there was a huge difference between Man and those creatures that never even invented the wheel.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Just imagine with the world will look like in a hundred years

 

[irosie91]

As a species : we’re almost brand new at 250,000 yrs or so

If you just examine the last few centuries it’s utterly astounding!!
From mastering electricity to computers to jet rocket engines to discovering planets and stars on the far side of the Milky Way

Maybe time travel and visiting the stars might be beyond us but it’s amazing that we accomplished more in the last 200 yrs than the previous 200,000

"Man" was created 6,000 years ago. There is debate as to the humanoid creatures that roamed the earth before that, but at the creation of Man there was a huge difference between Man and those creatures that never even invented the wheel.

good point-----fact is "lower forms" did start using tools-----long long ago. Anyone
know when "man" first began to develope written language

 

[Mark Richard]

Death Angel hahaha

 

[Carl in Michigan]

As a species : we’re almost brand new at 250,000 yrs or so

If you just examine the last few centuries it’s utterly astounding!!
From mastering electricity to computers to jet rocket engines to discovering planets and stars on the far side of the Milky Way

Maybe time travel and visiting the stars might be beyond us but it’s amazing that we accomplished more in the last 200 yrs than the previous 200,000

"Man" was created 6,000 years ago. There is debate as to the humanoid creatures that roamed the earth before that, but at the creation of Man there was a huge difference between Man and those creatures that never even invented the wheel.

good point-----fact is "lower forms" did start using tools-----long long ago. Anyone
know when "man" first began to develope written language

Everything SEEMS to have begun about 6,000 years ago.

The scriptures say it was Adam who first received "the spirit of Man" 6,000 years ago.

The Roman's, 2,090 years ago, and the Greeks, 500 years before that, were amazingly developed. Then the Dark Ages came

 

[Mark Richard]

irosie91 there is a book by a guy named Yuval Noah harari that wrote a book called sapiens. I think he talks about one language starts. I'd read the book a long time ago but I don't particularly remember that part of the book. But from what I gather, civilizations didn't start until people started to sit still in a particular location and start their own farms and culture and language and beliefs and so on and so forth. Language probably started around that time. I think that was 14,000 years ago if I'm not mistaken

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Death Angel hahaha

You should learn to use the emojis

 

[Mark Richard]

irosie91 I was wrong I think farming start at 10,000 years ago. And when people started to stay still, they started to communicate differently. But at that time they were carving hieroglyphics and animal shapes and caves. So I guess that was a form of written language. Hieroglyphics.

 

[Mark Richard]

Death Angel but why? I don't even know how to access them on my phone. And it's not hard for me to send the words.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

"Man" was created 6,000 years ago. There is debate as to the humanoid creatures that roamed the earth before that, but at the creation of Man there was a huge difference between Man and those creatures that never even invented the wheel.

What huge difference is that? Something from 6,000 years ago, but not from 10,000 years ago, for example.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

good point-----fact is "lower forms" did start using tools-----long long ago. Anyone
know when "man" first began to develope written language

tell us.

 

[Mark Richard]

Fort Fun Indiana Well religious facts are sometimes different than archaeological facts

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Fort Fun Indiana Well religious facts are sometimes different than archaeological facts

Ha, right. Sometimes. Like, everything >6000 years old.

 

[irosie91]

irosie91 there is a book by a guy named Yuval Noah harari that wrote a book called sapiens. I think he talks about one language starts. I'd read the book a long time ago but I don't particularly remember that part of the book. But from what I gather, civilizations didn't start until people started to sit still in a particular location and start their own farms and culture and language and beliefs and so on and so forth. Language probably started around that time. I think that was 14,000 years ago if I'm not mistaken

seems about right and a reasonable point to start human history----Human aka homo sapien
aka men (and women OF COURSE). I am discarding the old model "use of tools" which
is not unique to homo sapien and drawings on cave wall which seems to long precede
actual language and any form of writing

 

[Mark Richard]

irosie91 did Socrates write things down?

 

[Mark Richard]

irosie91 hey Google search says "The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin"

 

[irosie91]

irosie91 hey Google search says "The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin"

oh----but that one is sorta sophisticated. I would consider decipherable
PICTOGRAPHS -----as writing too for my effort in deciding when HUMAN HISTORY
begins ----anything that could actually record history

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

irosie91 hey Google search says "The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin"

oh----but that one is sorta sophisticated. I would consider decipherable
PICTOGRAPHS -----as writing too for my effort in deciding when HUMAN HISTORY
begins ----anything that could actually record history

Human history does not begin with the ability to write it down. Why would it? You are merely asking what the oldest examples of written language we have actually found are. of course, for such written records to exist, the discovered, written language would have taken some time to evolve from primitive symbols and to gain syntax and agreed meanings of words, etc. So you would still not have come very close to delineating "the first wri8tten language", even if you arbitrarily choose that standard for "the beginning of history".