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This study proposes an anthroposemiotic theory of prehistoric writing, moving beyond the traditional view that script emerged purely from administrative needs in early Mesopotamian civilizations. Instead, it intends to demonstrate that writing’s deepest roots may lie within the graphic and ritual practices of the Upper Palaeolithic. Approaching early humanity as Homo symbolicus, this study explores how cave art, geometric signs, and monumental architecture may have functioned as exosomatic memory and sacred mediation. Drawing on archi-écriture and spatial syntax, the research shows that prehistoric marks organized spatial relations and structured symbolic ecosystems long before their formalization into phonetic scripts. Ultimately, writing’s genesis can be situated within a broader cognitive evolution, where symbolic exteriorization transformed natural surfaces into durable spaces of meaning.

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Abstract
1. Introduction: In Search of the Origin of Writing
2. Archi-écriture and the Deep Time of Inscription
3. Recent Archaeological Debates: Information Density, Phenological Hypotheses, and the Return of French Prehistoric Semiology
4. Homo symbolicus and the Sacred Emergence of Prehistoric Writing
5. The Emergence of Homo graphicus: Image, Gesture, and Exosomatic Memory
6. Gramme, Geometry, and the Recursive Structure of Prehistoric Signs
7. Conclusion: Semiotic parallelism and coevolution of different sign systems
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• Sung Do Kim [ Korea University, Republic of Korea ] Corresponding Author
• Seungjoon Cho [ Korea University, Republic of Korea ]

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• 간행물명

  에피스테메 [EPISTÉMÈ]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1976-9660

• 수록기간

  2007~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 331.05 DDC 301