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Another example are the winter counts used by Plains tribes, which used various symbols to remind the "reader" of particular memorable events: https://en.wikip
by tdeck 5mo ago
Another example are the winter counts used by Plains tribes, which used various symbols to remind the "reader" of particular memorable events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_count
Or in Asia the Dongba script, which to me looks like a series of cartoon panels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongba_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongba_symbols
- nephihaha 5mo agoThe Winter Count is more in that ballpark, and looks like an independent creation. The first recognised alphabet in the Americas would be runic, but practically every supposed example outside Greenland seems to be controversial. I do believe that Mesoamerican script would have evolved into an alphabet eventually and a number of North American tribes were moving towards a script independently. The Dongpa symbols look like they have some influence from Chinese characters somewhere down the line (much like some of the North American syllabaries are influenced by the Roman alphabet).