Arthur Evans

• zaczątki alfabetu zawarte w pierwszych freskach naskalnych: "It is strange, indeed, that in the very infancy of its art mankind should have produced the elemental figures which the most perfected alphabetic systems have simply repeated. The elements of advanced writing were indeed there, but the time had not yet come when their real value could be recognized. It has only been after the lapse of whole aeons of time, through the gradual decay and conventionalization of a much more elaborate pictography, that civilized mankind reverted to these ‘beggarly elements’, and literature was born."
• Gesty foniczne: " Mere animal cries and what may be called ‘voice signs’ might have carried them far"

Bibliografia

• Arthur J. Evans, The European Diffusion of Primitive Pictography and its Bearings on the Origin of Script, in: Anthropology And The Classics. Six Lectures Delivered Before The University Of Oxford By Arthur J. Evans, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, F. B. Jevons, J. L. Myres W., Warde Fowler, ed. R. R. Marett, Oxford At The Clarendon Press 1908. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53646/53646-h/53646-h.htm#Page_9