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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND ORIGIN OF GRAPHIC SIGNS (ACCORDING TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS DATED BACK TO 3.3 MILLION – 10,000 YEARS AGO)

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Gia Kvashilava

PhD in Economics, Caucasus International University

Abstract

In this paper, the issues of economic relations, origin and development of graphic signs are discussed. In this regard, socio-economic eras and “Upper Paleolithic Revolution” are covered, which show how a person is formed in the process of obtaining livelihood.

The Paleolithic Age – the period when people followed “natural farming” is researched. The development of productive forces expanded the knowledge of nature, especially about the useful properties of natural resources. These qualities were manifested through the means of labor in affecting the objects of labor in the process of production, which contributed to the association of men and the division of labor in order to obtain, by common action, the objects of labor. This process arised and developed languages, abstraction, conventional graphic signs, etc.

Keywords: Keywords: economic relations, socio-economic eras, Paleolithic Age, Upper Paleolithic Revolution, graphic signs

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