Post by ILIRI I MADH on Aug 17, 2008 18:30:59 GMT -5
The Kosovo Association of Stone Art Research, KRARA, last weekend undertook an expedition in Kosovo’s central Drenica region, coming across a schematic model of an ancient script.
This is the second locality in Drenica with a big cultural interest for Kosovo. A while ago KRARA in collaboration with the Institute for the Conservation of Monuments, Regional Museum of Prishtina and the Cultural Ministry had registered and decoded the menhirs or monumental stones of Aqareva nearby.
Such writings are very important documents of a writing system completed and saved in one place, and most ancient found so far in Kosovo.
In May of this year at an American Rock Art Research Association conference, KRARA presented this method of inscription and the first words written some 6,000 years ago transliterated as TY ET (Albanian: TY ZOT or archaic as TY ET/ You God). These are the oldest written words found in Kosovo, engraved in a stone 4,000 B.C. The artifacts studied show that Kosovo had an ideographic system of writing that illustrates the motivations of the community of that time, focusing in the description of manners or the local mores.
Cultural trends and understanding processes of those times evolved with the invention of documented writing, especially in stone. Other artifacts presumably in organic material have decomposed, not resisting time or may have be damaged, and this will be determined in the future phases of research.
From the initial results of decoding and transliteration, the team managed to understand some very important ideological concepts of the early society in the territory of Kosovo. These signs and symbols enable us to know more of the evolvement of the lifestyle and preoccupation of ancient inhabitants of Kosovo. The scientists have achieved to read the complex compositions found in Zatariq and in Llausha; the style of description is the same as is in the other localities decoded by KARA that are related to burial rituals.
The prehistoric art of Kosovo has elements of a style unique in the world that expresses the universal values of the humanity, the first attempts of humans to learn and project the future. These are valuable information, part of the cultural reality and wealth of world’s inheritance. Kosovo has lost many valuable artifacts of first hand. There have been many factors that have influenced this: some are the process of nature, but cases are not rare when these artifacts have been damaged by people.
Recording and decoding the grammar, syntax and reading of the powerful messages of our ancestors from thousands of years ago, amaze us with their sophisticated intelligence and bring back the memory of the cultural identity of the place for the pride of future generations.
www.newkosovareport.com/200808171135/Culture-and-Sports/6000-yo-script-discovered-in-Kosovo.html
This is the second locality in Drenica with a big cultural interest for Kosovo. A while ago KRARA in collaboration with the Institute for the Conservation of Monuments, Regional Museum of Prishtina and the Cultural Ministry had registered and decoded the menhirs or monumental stones of Aqareva nearby.
Such writings are very important documents of a writing system completed and saved in one place, and most ancient found so far in Kosovo.
In May of this year at an American Rock Art Research Association conference, KRARA presented this method of inscription and the first words written some 6,000 years ago transliterated as TY ET (Albanian: TY ZOT or archaic as TY ET/ You God). These are the oldest written words found in Kosovo, engraved in a stone 4,000 B.C. The artifacts studied show that Kosovo had an ideographic system of writing that illustrates the motivations of the community of that time, focusing in the description of manners or the local mores.
Cultural trends and understanding processes of those times evolved with the invention of documented writing, especially in stone. Other artifacts presumably in organic material have decomposed, not resisting time or may have be damaged, and this will be determined in the future phases of research.
From the initial results of decoding and transliteration, the team managed to understand some very important ideological concepts of the early society in the territory of Kosovo. These signs and symbols enable us to know more of the evolvement of the lifestyle and preoccupation of ancient inhabitants of Kosovo. The scientists have achieved to read the complex compositions found in Zatariq and in Llausha; the style of description is the same as is in the other localities decoded by KARA that are related to burial rituals.
The prehistoric art of Kosovo has elements of a style unique in the world that expresses the universal values of the humanity, the first attempts of humans to learn and project the future. These are valuable information, part of the cultural reality and wealth of world’s inheritance. Kosovo has lost many valuable artifacts of first hand. There have been many factors that have influenced this: some are the process of nature, but cases are not rare when these artifacts have been damaged by people.
Recording and decoding the grammar, syntax and reading of the powerful messages of our ancestors from thousands of years ago, amaze us with their sophisticated intelligence and bring back the memory of the cultural identity of the place for the pride of future generations.
www.newkosovareport.com/200808171135/Culture-and-Sports/6000-yo-script-discovered-in-Kosovo.html