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Signs to Scripts: Cultural Evolution and Visual Transformation of the Proto-Elamite Writing System | ||
| پژوهش های باستان شناسی ایران | ||
| مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 15 دی 1404 | ||
| نوع مقاله: مقاله پژوهشی | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22084/nb.2026.32110.2832 | ||
| نویسنده | ||
| مریم فارسی* | ||
| پژوهشگر مستقل | ||
| چکیده | ||
| This study develops a heuristic cultural-evolutionary framework to trace the visual transformation of the Elamite writing system (ca. 3500–1850 BCE), emphasizing how evolving signs and artistic styles co-shaped the emergence, stabilization, and regional diversification of early writing systems. Grounded in cultural evolution theory, the research examines the Proto-Iranian writing sequence, encompassing Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite as reconceptualized by Desset. Co-evolving stylistic trajectories are traced from representational motifs to increasingly abstract linear forms. A corpus of approximately 400 artefacts was systematically coded using analytically defined graded variables capturing pictoriality-abstraction, motif-script integration, stylistic complexity, and overall compositional geometry, enabling a detailed assessment of cultural dynamics and temporal patterns. Manually generated heuristic cultural-evolutionary reconstructions visualize directional patterns of change, highlighting continuity, divergence, experimentation, and innovation without asserting discrete clades or formal homologies. Findings demonstrate that iterative engagement with visual signs structured variation, transmission, and selective retention, while artistic styles actively mediated abstraction, spatial standardization, and compositional integration in writing. Integrating Material Engagement Theory (MET), this study emphasizes the distributed and entangled nature of cognition, showing how repeated interactions with clay tablets, seals, and other artefacts distributed memory and structured knowledge across mind, body, environment, and social practice. MET provides a conceptual lens for understanding how material engagement both scaffolds cognitive processes and actively shapes cultural evolution, facilitating individual learning, apprenticeship, and population-level transmission of stylistic and scriptural conventions over extended temporal and spatial scales. While material engagement and artistic conventions played a central role, administrative and socio-economic constraints simultaneously shaped the evolution of writing, functioning as integral components within the mind/brain-body-environment nexus. By operationalizing graded variables through a heuristic framework, this research offers a theoretically rigorous yet flexible methodology for studying early writing systems under comparable archaeological and stylistic conditions, highlighting the reciprocal influence of cognition, culture, and material engagement in the co-evolution of writing and visual style across diverse contexts. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| Cultural Evolution؛ Proto-Elamite Writing System؛ Artistic Styles؛ Visual Transformation؛ Proto-Iranian Script | ||
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