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Are these Neanderthal etchings a long-lost message?
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | May 8, 2018 | Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | LiveScience

Posted on 05/16/2018 10:21:01 AM PDT by ETL

A Neanderthal seems to have left a message etched in stone about 35,000 years ago, a new study finds.

An analysis of the slanted, zigzag lines — engraved on a piece of flint discovered at a Neanderthal site in Crimea — reveals that they likely weren't made willy-nilly. Rather, the Neanderthal artist would have needed excellent fine motor skills and attention to detail to etch the lines, which may carry symbolic meaning, the researchers said.

If this new interpretation is correct, the engraved piece of flint will join a growing list of artifacts showing that Neanderthals were likely complex beings who partook in symbolic activities, including intentionally burying their dead and decorating ornaments, the researchers said.

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KEYWORDS: artifacts; crimea; epigraphyandlanguage; etching; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: ETL

“Here’s how the pyramids and Atlantis were built...AAAAAAH, a cave bear! Kill it fast before it eats meeeeeeeeee!”


61 posted on 05/16/2018 1:31:38 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: a fool in paradise

62 posted on 05/16/2018 1:35:26 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Is THAT where the modern hipsters found that look?


63 posted on 05/16/2018 1:50:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Ancesthntr; a fool in paradise; dfwgator
Knights entering a cave. It is a large cave and as they walk inside it we see in the darkness at the side of the cave a fearsome looking creature which watches them as they walk to some writing carved on the back of the cave wall.

ARTHUR: Look! There!

BEDEVERE: What does it say?

GALAHAD: What language is this?

BEDEVERE: Brother Maynard, you are a scholar.

BROTHER MAYNARD: It is Aramaic!

GALAHAD: Of course. Joseph of Aramathea!

ALL: Of course.

ARTHUR: What does it say?

BROTHER MAYNARD: It reads ... "He who is valorous and pure of heart may find the Holy Grail in the aaaaarrrrrrggghhh..."

ARTHUR: What?

BROTHER MAYNARD: "The Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh..."

BEDEVERE: What's that?

BROTHER MAYNARD: He must have died while carving it.

BEDEVERE: Oh, come on.

BROTHER MAYNARD: That's what it says.

ARTHUR (miming): But if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh". He'd just say it.

BROTHER MAYNARD: It's down there carved in stone.

GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating.

ARTHUR: Shut up.

64 posted on 05/16/2018 2:03:41 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

So those are bunny claw marks?


65 posted on 05/16/2018 2:04:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: ETL

The way they are numbered, perhaps the Neanderthals invented golf?


66 posted on 05/16/2018 2:19:36 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: teeman8r

Lol!


67 posted on 05/16/2018 2:24:00 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: teeman8r

68 posted on 05/16/2018 2:27:19 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: teeman8r

69 posted on 05/16/2018 2:29:47 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Ohhhh........I can just make it out... ‘Make America Great Again’....


70 posted on 05/16/2018 2:34:45 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Reily

I understand you lose something in the translation.

I thought the original just said, “Uh-uh-uh”.

CA....


71 posted on 05/16/2018 2:53:58 PM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: Chances Are

Guess so!


72 posted on 05/16/2018 3:03:02 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Rio

73 posted on 05/16/2018 3:03:45 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Spam from that Nigerian “prince.”


74 posted on 05/16/2018 3:18:49 PM PDT by Prospero (Lex est rex)
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To: ETL

Exactly. Tthanks


75 posted on 05/16/2018 4:11:12 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: ETL

Damn! If only Barry Fell were still alive to translate that Ogham!


76 posted on 05/16/2018 4:42:47 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!�)
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To: bert

Diamond Point Cold Chisel

77 posted on 05/16/2018 5:58:30 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

What the author of this article fails to mention is that this text can be translated roughly as E=mc2.


78 posted on 05/16/2018 11:55:44 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ETL; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin; All

Maybe they were testing the sharpness of another tool?? I remember seeing something similar from southern Africa dated at least 80,000 ya except that they were criss cross lines.


79 posted on 05/17/2018 12:50:56 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
That could be as well. That method could have been fairly commonplace in the paleolithic, but easy for an archaeologist to ignore.

80 posted on 05/18/2018 11:45:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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