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What were the first Symbols?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Symbols evolved with mankind as a way of communicating ideas to someone, marking the passing of time, or as reminders to the person who made them. They started out pretty basic, five stones in a V shape to indicate direction; or a mark cut on a tree to indicate the tree was of "value"; or as series of knots on the string used to secure a bag, to differentiate the contents. Eventually as mankind evolved and needed to communicate more complex ideas the symbols evolved too.

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