GROUP 6

MEDIA AND
INFORMATION LITERACY:
PREHISTORIC AGE
“PRE-LITERARY HISTORY”
PREHISTORIC AGE
People discovered fire, developed paper from
plants and forge equipment or weapon through
stone, bronze, copper, iron.
01
What devices did
people use to
communicate with
each other?
● SMOKE SIGNAL
Smoke signalling is a type
of visual communication in
which people produce
smoke from a fire that can
travel a greater distance. It
was used to send out
danger alerts and call
individuals to a shared area
to deliver important crdts: Frederic Remington
information.
● FIRE SIGNAL
It was used to warn people
of danger indicators using a
fire signal.

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● HORNS AND
SOUND
Different sorts of sound are
used by prehistoric people
for different types of news
or information.
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● CAVE
PAINTINGS
The most well-known form
of primitive communication
is cave paintings. The
method involved creating
pigments made from the
juice of fruits and berries,
colored minerals, or animal
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blood.
.
● PAPYRUS
The first form of paper was
made by the ancient
Egyptians around 3000 BC.

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● CLAY TABLETS
The first form of paper was
made by the ancient
Egyptians around 3000 BC.
It is constructed from the
medulla of a paper reed
found in the delta where the
Nile river drains into the
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● ACTA DIURNA
The Acta diurna (also called Acta
populi, or Acta publica), said to
date from before 59 bce,
recorded official business and
matters of public interest. Under
the empire (after 27 bce), the
Acta diurna constituted a type of
daily gazette, and thus it was, in
a sense, the prototype of the
modern newspaper.
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● DIBAO IN
CHINA
Dibao (Chinese: 邸報; pinyin:
dǐbào; Wade–Giles: ti3-pao4),
literally "reports from the [official]
residences", were a type of
publications issued by central and
local governments in imperial
China, which was the only official
government newspaper published
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government in different dynasties.
● CODEX IN
MAYAN REGION
Maya codices (singular codex)
are folding books written by
the pre-Columbian Maya
civilization in Maya
hieroglyphic script on
Mesoamerican bark paper. The
folding books are the products
of professional scribes working
under the patronage of deities
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God and the Howler Monkey
Gods.
● PRINTING
PRESS USING
WOOD BLOCKS
Woodblock printing (or block
printing) is a technique for
printing text, images or patterns
used widely throughout East
Asia and originating in China in
antiquity as a method of printing
on textiles and later paper.
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02
What devices did
people use to
store
information?
 ● PAPYRUS PAPER
Papyrus paper was used to
record keeping and lists,
also for correspondence
and legal documents.

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 ● TALLY STICK
A tally stick was an ancient
memory aid device used to
record and document
numbers, quantities and
messages.
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 ● QUIPU
The quipu is an assembly of
colored knotted cotton
cords used by the ancient
Inca as a data storage
device.
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 ● CLAY BALLS
The clay balls may
represent the world's "very
first data storage system,"
The balls, often called
"envelopes" by researchers,
were sealed and contain
tokens in a variety of
geometric shapes.
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 ● OLD FABRIC
Old fabric and traditional
writing materials are used
to keep informations.
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 ● WOOD
BLOCKS
Woodblock printing or block
printing is a technique for
printing text, images or
patterns As each copy was
then stored in a tiny
wooden pagoda.

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 ● CAVE
WALLS
The earliest known forms of
data storage are the images
carved in stone upon the
walls of caves.

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 ● CAVE
PAINTING
Cave paintings are a type of
parietal art (which category
also includes petroglyphs,
or engravings), found on the
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 ● HIEROGLYPHICS
This is just like the cave
paintings, but it originated
in Egypt. And it is carved in
the rocks or clay tablets.

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 ● CODEX
A codex is essentially an
ancient book, consisting of
one or more queries of
sheets of papyrus or
parchment folded together
to form a group of leaves, or
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03 What devices did
people use to
share or
broadcast
information?
 ● FIRE
Fire is used as a signal to send information to people, news
and danger.

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 ● SMOKE
Smoke is used over long distance to share information, news
or gather people to a common area.

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 ● HORNS
They used horn to summon gatherings or to alert the tribe.

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 ● CAVE PAINTING
Cave paintings are painted drawings used to let other people
know information.

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 ● PICTURE WRITING
Picture writing or ideograms are symbol of ideas to share
information.

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 ● ROCK CARVING
Rock carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural
stone are shaped to share information.

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 ● STONE PAPYRUS
The papyrus plants’ writing surface, made from strips of the pith found
inside the stalk that were placed down in layers and dried under
pressure, was possibly its most significant usage.

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 ● TRADITIONAL PAPER
Traditional Paper is a thick, paper-like substance made from the pith of
the Cyperus papyrus plant that was used for writing much before paper
was used in China by ancient Egypt and other Mediterranean nations.

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 ● CLAY TABLETS
A clay tablet is a surface that is roughly flat and composed of
clay. Symbols were pressed into the soft clay with a stylus.

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 ● STONE CARVING
The term "petroglyphs" in prehistoric art refers to any image etched,
scratched, engraved, chiseled, or otherwise carved on a rock surface.
It is derived from the Greek words "petra," which means stone, and
"glyphein," which means to carve.

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 GROUP 6

MEDIA AND
INFORMATION LITERACY:
PREHISTORIC AGE
“PRE-LITERARY HISTORY”
Submitted to:
Ms. A-Janlique baltazar

Submitted by:
● Abas, anne mariel
● Aguilar, angel
● Cortez, keith mariane
● Reyes, jereen carla
● Tiu, xian