Jiahu symbols

Jiahu symbols

"Jiahu symbols" ( _zh. 贾湖契刻符号) refer to the 16 distinct markings on prehistoric artifacts found in Jiahu, a neolithic Peiligang culture site found in Henan, China. Dated to 6600 BC, some archaeologists believe the markings to be a writing system related to the oracle bone script (e.g. similar markings of _zh. 目 “eye”, _zh. 日 “sun; day”), but some doubt that the markings represent systematic writing at all and believe that they were simply used as pictures. The earliest evidence for a corpus of writing in the oracle bone script dates much later to the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 – 1046 BC).

ee also

*Neolithic signs in China
*Bronzeware script

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2956925.stm "‘Earliest writing’ found in China"] at [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/default.stm BBC News]
* [http://www.geocities.com/slt_cn/hsu0101b.htm _zh. 中国文字体系形成的时代 (‘Time period when Chinese characters were forming’)] (in Simplified Chinese)


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