Prehistoric Age

  • Cave Paintings
    30,000 BCE

    Cave Paintings

    These are murals or paints that are drawn or painted on the walls or rock surfaces of a cave. These are found in places such as France, Spain, North Africa and etc. Experts said that the paintings explain what happens in nature and as what they were doing such as hunting and farming.
  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 1400

    Prehistoric Age

  • Petroglyphs
    10,000 BCE

    Petroglyphs

    The first petroglyphs are created on hunter-gathering strategies. This is known as the first forms of mass media.
  • Pictographs
    7000 BCE

    Pictographs

    These are carved visual images of what people did at that moment based on what they saw.
  • Hieroglyphs
    2200 BCE

    Hieroglyphs

    A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred writing") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs".
  • Cuneiform or Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform
    2200 BCE

    Cuneiform or Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform

    One of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means “wedge shaped".
  • Wax Tablet
    1400

    Wax Tablet

    A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages.
  • Padung Na Exams

    January on the 2nd week