Herstory of Writing -- Beginning Before 6600 BC in China?

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with reference to our post of 25 June 2004 -- on the subject

of " Chinese Writing On 8,600 Year Old Tortoise Shells "

 

ChinaU/message/47

 

I have sent several emails today to researchers and

editors, and other commentators, and hope to track

down some of the images of the 11 Chinese Character /

Pictograms from 6600BC -- and the 14 Tortoise Shell

fragments on which they were written.

 

while waiting for further news, here are the best web stories

I have found -- from the last 18 months -- writing on the discovery

of the ancient pictograms / characters.

 

and can also forward two of the images I have found -- VERY small

format on the web -- of some of the characters. [i have enlarged and

focused the images as best I can, for your viewing.]

 

I was particularly interested to read the reference from the Antiquities

Journal publication of the article -- the reference by TU, BAIKUI. 2001 --

with the title " Consideration of the word 'zhen' as having the shape of

tortoise plastron at Buci, Yinxu. " Kaogu Yu Wenwu (Chinese) 278-81.

 

Zhen is the Chinese Character for Truth, or TruthSpeaking!

 

 

http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=140893

 

[this is a copy of the Antiquities article -- unfortunately WITHOUT

the photos and graphics attached ...]

 

if anyone finds better webpages and photos -- and more recent --

please let us all know!

 

 

for ALL our sacred relations,

 

 

 

 

 

Millennium Twain

 

 

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-5-2003_pg6_18 !!!

 

http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=140893 !!!

 

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Jun/66806.htm !!!

 

http://www.nature.com/NSU/030428/030428-7.html !!!

 

 

http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/4/19/54447/6194 !!

 

http://www.china.org.cn/english/TR-e/5682.htm !!

 

http://www.clta-gny.org/originofwriting.htm !!

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,951042,00.html

 

http://bric.postech.ac.kr/science/97now/03_4now/030429b.html

 

http://www.webster.sk.ca/GREENWICH/9ooo-1.htm

 

 

http://antiquity.ac.uk/Listing/ContPages/295index.html

 

Antiquity: A quarterly review of archaeology edited by Martin Carver, Volume

77:

Number 295,    March 2003, editor

Xueqin Li, Garman Harbottle, Juzhong Zhang & Changsui Wang

The earliest writing? Sign use in the seventh millennium BC at Jiahu,

Henan Province, China

 

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1999-10/BNL-BLeh-041099.php

 

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030421/writing.html

 

These tortoise shells have pictograms carved into them from 8,600 years ago.

The small pile of stones are thought to have been used as an instrument,

or perhaps for counting. Courtesy of the Institute of Cultural Relics

and Archaeology of Henan Province, China

 

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