The Start of Human Culture & the First Human Revolution, in the Fertile Crescent

A History of Mankind (5)

Far away from African deserts, in western Mesopotamia, the first pictograms that may contain useful information, an extremely primitive form of writing, were found in the Jerf el Ahmar settlement south of modern Aleppo, inhabited until 8700 BC.[1] They are some signs in separate stone plaquettes, representing insects and other animals, as well as abstra…