pictographic

Examples of pictographic in the following topics:

• Balanced Scorecards

  • The balanced scorecard represents performance pictographically; its original design was a table broken up into sections, or perspectives, that generally included financial, customer, internal business processes, and learning and growth.
  • Today, this second-generation balanced scorecard is often referred to as a "strategy map", but the vernacular "balanced scorecard" is still used to refer to anything consistent with a pictographic strategic management tool.

• Rock Art in the Sahara

  • With the help of these pictographs and petroglyphs, archaeologists and scientists have begun to piece together information about the complex societies that once inhabited the region.
  • It contains Neolithic pictographs of people swimming that are estimated to have been created between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, when wet climatic conditions maintained bodies of water deep enough for swimming and diving.

• Visuals

  • The evolution of communication is largely visual, with pictographs dating back thousands of years.

• Art and Architecture of the Southwest Cultures

  • In the Southwestern United States, numerous pictographs and petroglyphs were created.
  • The creations of the Fremont culture, the Anasazi, and later tribes can be seen at present day Buckhorn Draw Pictograph Panel and Horseshoe Canyon, among other sites.

• Enduring Cultures

  • The Mayans also evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas using pictographs and syllabic elements in the form of texts and codices inscribed on stone, pottery, wood, or highly perishable books made from bark paper.

• Codices of the Mixtec

  • Above each participant's head is a glyph, or pictograph, with a dot.

• The Minoans

  • The Egyptian hieroglyphs served as a model for Minoan pictographic writing, from which the famous Linear A and Linear B writing systems later developed.

• Art in the Early Dynastic Period

  • Media ranged from papyrus drawings to pictographs (hieroglyphics) and included funerary sculpture carved in relief and in the round from sandstone, quartz diorite, and granite.

• Arts of the Great Plains

  • Men painted narrative, pictorial designs recording personal exploits or visions as well as pictographic historical calendars known as Winter counts.

• Stonework on Easter Island

  • Glyphs include pictographic and geometric shapes; the texts were incised in wood in reverse boustrophedon direction.