Reseña de paleografía, Ejercicios de Arqueología

¡Descarga Reseña de paleografía y más Ejercicios en PDF de Arqueología solo en Docsity! PALEOGRAPHY: THE SCIENCE OF WRITING Paleography studies the alphabetic writing and evolution of every written testimony from a cultural tradition and linguistics. Every millenary city has produced and preserves enormous quantities of written testimonies using different techniques: - Hand-writing and mechanical instruments: used for thousands of years in a lot of different sociocultural and linguistic situations. - Informatic instruments: digital production. According to the personal writing and reading abilities it’s possible to establish 6 literate categories: literate, professional literate, instrumental literate, functional semiliterate, graphic literate and illiterate. Writing can be based on 3 situations: - Establishing the relationship between text and figure. - Text subdivision in two or more columns, like the Bible. It’s used for the first time in the Ancient World (Egypt, Greece and Roman culture). - Juxtaposition of several texts: Related to scholastic situations and didactic practices. The text is filled with smaller texts that explains the main one. It started in the Carolingian period and got stronger in the Gothic period. Texts are written in order to preserve and be re-read. It’s possible to find, in every culture and era, “strong texts” which are meant to be read over the centuries and “weak texts”, which are destined to disappear. Ancient Era: Athens, 5th century b.C: First public use of writing and reading. It concerned political democratic orders. It was possible to read legends in public, in pottery, walls… Reading and writing taught at school and this idea continued in the Roman empire. 1st century a.C: Evolution from a Greco-Latin system with words separation to a continuous writing without this separation. 7th to 12th century: Introduction of spaces between groups of words. Later on, separation of every word is established in the modern use of writing.