The tablets of Tărtăria shake up our preconceptions (from the symbols of GöbekliTepe to the first alphabets).

Abstract

The latest analyzes, carried out in 2005, confirm that the Tărtăria tablets date before 5000 BC. We believe that this dating does not entirely invalidate the theory of the appearance of first writing systems, which states that they appear simultaneously and independently in Egypt and Mesopotamia. We need just to add “and in the region of the Balkans”, because, in our opinion, like the rays of the sun, these three cradles of writing have a common origin: the temples of GobekliTepe.As a teacher of French as a second foreign language, we use methods derived from the contrastive analysis of applied linguistics. Having the habit of teachign the FSE by parallels with the mother tongue, we applied this method in our analyzes of the semasiograms. This is how our methodof comparison by parallels was born. Thanks to this innovative approach (it has never been used in the analysis of archaeological artefacts) we hope to bring a new reading of semasiograms.

   Keywords: Tablets of Tărtăria; Ba’ja necklace from Jordan; Sumerian and Egyptian proto-writings systems; Megalithic art of GobekliTepe