一我们无法确定文字的起源,就如我们无法确定图像的起源一样。不过,现时考古学所提供的证据似乎大致说明:人类有意识的制像和建造活动及其产物,大约出现在公元前三万至两万五千年之间,近些年对岩画的研究又将人类制像的历史延伸到公元前三万五千年以前,而文字却大约是在公元前三千五百年左右由苏美尔人发明的;但我们应当记住的是,苏美尔人文字的先声是用泥做成的圆柱状的、可以刻画微小物体图像的印章,这种印章被专家们称为陶筹。 We can not determine the origin of the text just as we can not determine the origin of the image. However, the evidence provided by archeology seems to indicate roughly that the conscious system of imagery and construction of human beings and their products occurred between about 30,000 and 25,000 BC. In recent years, The history of human imagery extends thirty-five thousand years before BC, but the text was invented by the Sumerians about 3,500 BC; but it should be remembered that the Sumerians The forerunner of the text is a cylindrical, cylinder-shaped seal that can be used to characterize images of tiny objects. Such seals are known to the experts as pottery chips.