Skip to comments.
Unknown Writing System Uncovered On Ancient Olmec Tablet
scienceagogo ^
| 15 September 2006
| by Kate Melville
Posted on 07/30/2008 6:58:45 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-51 next last
To: Fred Nerks
I bet Al Gore invented that style of writing. That was right before he invented the Internet.
To: Fred Nerks
That looks like the standard Air Force UXO Identification Card!
22
posted on
07/30/2008 7:43:14 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: editor-surveyor
It’s probably a catalog of taxes paid or owed. That is how writing was invented, to record taxes. Tax collecting is likely the second oldest profession.
I blieve most of the Linear B (Greek) sources are lists of commodities owed/collected as taxes, plus lists of officer assignments, eg, coast watchers, governors, etc. I do not believe any literary texts have been discovered on Linear B tablets.
23
posted on
07/30/2008 7:49:19 PM PDT
by
FFranco
To: FFranco
Wasn’t it linear B that hasn’t been deciphered yet? Could be wrong, but one of the early Greek scripts to my knowledge (which is very amateur grade) has never been decoded.
24
posted on
07/30/2008 7:57:43 PM PDT
by
TruthConquers
(Delendae sunt publici scholae)
To: TruthConquers
Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the early 1950s. It is apparently an archaic Greek language written in Minoan (Linear A) syllabic script. As far as I know, Linear A has not yet been deciphered.
25
posted on
07/30/2008 8:20:27 PM PDT
by
FFranco
To: Fred Nerks
The Olmecs are a mysterious culture, to say the least. We know so little about them. Where they came from is a mystery; where they went is a mystery. We don't even know their name, Olmec is just a name we assigned to them.
26
posted on
07/30/2008 8:32:42 PM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: Fred Nerks; blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
27
posted on
07/30/2008 9:33:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: Army Air Corps
Re “We are having a helluva kegger, but we need more beer and pizza.”
You forgot the most important thing in Olmec/Mayan/Aztec culture - virgins!
Not a good party without virgins to party with or sacrifice!
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
You are correct! The Perfet Party Triad is food, hooch, and women.
29
posted on
07/30/2008 10:12:01 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Fred Nerks
Looks like and advertisement for hand tools to me. Sort of an early Ace Hardware ad.
30
posted on
07/30/2008 10:20:15 PM PDT
by
dljordan
31
posted on
07/30/2008 10:25:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: Fred Nerks; blam
Okay... this got me thinking about the recent claim that the Phaistos Disk is a fake... and I could have sworn there was a topic about it... couldn’t find it... any leads?
32
posted on
07/30/2008 10:29:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
33
posted on
07/30/2008 11:02:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: SunkenCiv
PHAISTOS DISC.
Jerome M. Eisenberg, writing in the July/August issue of the magazine Minerva, provides a compilation of the scholarly (and non-scholarly) ideas about and attempted translations of the disk, and concludes that the disk is a forgery...
...The translation compilation alone contains such entertainments, from the mystic ("Helmsman's-rhythm-beating-call of the blossoming radiant heaven's tree dweller"), to the romantic ("Blissful lady of the labyrinth, blissful Isonoia, lady of the coffins") to the political ("Hear ye Cretans! Quick, quick") to the instructional ("Enter the grove of Elaia: Ignite smoothened wood all around"), ...
Proving the Phaistos disk a fake is going to be difficult. Eisenberg points out that the purposely stamped and deliberately fired disk is unlike any other Minoan script. Those found at Knossos were drawn into soft clay and accidentally fired.
No they were not accidentally fired! They were burnt as was the custom - as gifts to the dead.
The Secrets of Crete. Knossos wasn't a palace, it was a Temple of the Dead.
34
posted on
07/30/2008 11:16:26 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Fred Nerks
35
posted on
07/30/2008 11:25:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
36
posted on
07/30/2008 11:29:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
Roots of Mesoamerican Writing
Science Magazine | December 5, 2002 | Erik Stokstad
Posted on 12/07/2002 4:54:13 AM PST by jimtorr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/802484/posts
Secrets of old mask still hidden, duo say
Deseret Morning News | Monday, January 26, 2004 | Diane Urbani
Posted on 01/26/2004 12:55:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065675/posts
Secrets of old mask still hidden, duo say
Deseret Morning News | Monday, January 26, 2004 | By Joe Bauman
Posted on 01/30/2004 6:44:11 AM PST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1068269/posts
Script Delivery: New World writing takes disputed turn [ from 2002 ]
Science News; Vol. 162, No. 23 , p. 355 | Dec. 7, 2002 | Bruce Bower
Posted on 09/17/2006 12:51:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1703162/posts
37
posted on
07/30/2008 11:39:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: garyhope
Probably CP/M or Fortran. It looks more like APL.
The Olmec and the Shang
by Claire Liu
tr. by Robert Taylor
Last year, in a book entitled Origin of the Olmec Civilization, Professor Mike Xu, a Chinese who teaches in the foreign languages department at the University of Central Oklahoma, proposed a hypothesis which aroused a storm of controversy in archeological circles. In Xu's view, the first complex culture in Mesoamerica may have come into existence with the help of a group of Chinese who fled across the seas as refugees at the end of the Shang dynasty. The Olmec civilization arose around 1200 BC, which coincides with the time when King Wu of Zhou attacked and defeated King Zhou, the last Shang ruler, bringing his dynasty to a close.
39
posted on
07/30/2008 11:43:17 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: editor-surveyor
Yes, looks like an inventory of some sort. Too many of the items look like they could be held in one’s hand.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-51 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson