L38

新概念英语3 canlendars came into being with the advent of agriculture because man need to understand something about the seasons

L38 The first canlendar

• assumption
  • canlendars came into being with the advent of agriculture because man need to understand something about the seasons
  • may be incorrect
• the constrast of recording the history
  • our own times
    • selecting from the great mass of evidence
      • the written words
      • flims, videos, CDs and CD-ROMs
      • see and hear us in action
    • easy and unique
  • the distant past
    • deduce from the few scanty clues available
    • insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man
    • difficult task
• a primitive type of calendar
  • about 35,000B.C. and ended about 10,000B.C.
    • the nomads who hunt and fish for a living like to carve dots, lines and symbols on walls, bones and ivory from ancient mammoths
    • historians feel confused
  • Put together traces from all over the world, and found that the code is related to the change of day and night and the waxing and waning of the moon
    • historians have understood
  • These codes are not only a form of artistic expression, but also a form of writing close to ancient people and have a certain meaning
  • It seems that man was making a real efforts to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed

L38 The first canlendar

• assumption
  • canlendars came into being with the advent of agriculture because man need to understand something about the seasons
  • may be incorrect
• the constrast of recording the history
  • our own times
    • selecting from the great mass of evidence
      • the written words
      • flims, videos, CDs and CD-ROMs
      • see and hear us in action
    • easy and unique
  • the distant past
    • deduce from the few scanty clues available
    • insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man
    • difficult task
• a primitive type of calendar
  • about 35,000B.C. and ended about 10,000B.C.
    • the nomads who hunt and fish for a living like to carve dots, lines and symbols on walls, bones and ivory from ancient mammoths
    • historians feel confused
  • Put together traces from all over the world, and found that the code is related to the change of day and night and the waxing and waning of the moon
    • historians have understood
  • These codes are not only a form of artistic expression, but also a form of writing close to ancient people and have a certain meaning
  • It seems that man was making a real efforts to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed