| （School of Physical Education，South China Normal University，Guangzhou 510006，China) Abstract: By collating and analyzing 4 major hieroglyphic systems in the world: ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, Sumerian cuneiform, central American Maya hieroglyph and Chinese oracle bone inscription as well as their be-havior depicting characters, the authors probed into body movements in the life of human beings in the early peri-ods, and found that in the life of human beings in the early periods, there were a lot of body movement forms, these body movements were one of primary ways and driving forces for the cognitive activities of the ancestors in the early periods, playing an important role in boosting the formation of characters. The content of body movements of human beings in the early periods, as seen in hieroglyphs, has an embryologically important value in studying the birth of sports and cultures.
Key words: sports anthroplogy；hieroglyph；body movements；character formation；sports origin |
