to these photographs of these beautiful 7000-8000-year-old Chinese
characters (ideograms? graphs?):
http://news.sohu.com/20070520/n250119721.shtml
http://scitech.people.com.cn/GB/5757494.html
http://www.xjbs.com.cn/cgi-bin/GInfo.dll?DispInfo&w=xjbs&nid=397487