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Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?
The Observer ^
| Saturday, March 10, 2012
| Robin McKie
Posted on 03/12/2012 9:25:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Subtitle: "Previously overlooked patterns in the cave art of southern France and Spain suggest that man might have learned written communication 25,000 years earlier than we thought".
Some of the symbols found to recur among Palaeolithic cave paintings and other artefacts. Photograph: Genevieve von Petzinger
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03/12/2012 9:25:43 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Do they follow the -45° frequency distribution of language?
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03/12/2012 9:31:54 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1147 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: SunkenCiv
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03/12/2012 9:37:35 AM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
In her Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology, Mary Settegast reproduces a table which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Paleolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet.
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03/12/2012 9:40:16 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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03/12/2012 9:40:39 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: SunkenCiv
!
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03/12/2012 9:41:23 AM PDT
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Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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03/12/2012 9:41:23 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: null and void
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03/12/2012 9:43:16 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: Jack Hydrazine
And the Bronx only looks/acts like it’s prehistoric. ;’)
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03/12/2012 9:47:00 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: SunkenCiv
Here's another hand signal.
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03/12/2012 9:52:38 AM PDT
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bgill
(Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
To: Jack Hydrazine; bgill; blam; Fred Nerks; JoeProBono
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03/12/2012 9:55:43 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: SunkenCiv
This article would have particularly interested my Dad. He got irritated with the anthropologists who insisted the petroglyphs found in Arizona were just “doodles” made by ancient Indians. He firmly insisted they were conveying real information to each other.
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03/12/2012 10:02:39 AM PDT
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JimSEA
To: Jack Hydrazine
Shaka brah! Just hang loose.
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03/12/2012 10:07:15 AM PDT
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fish hawk
(NAACP = Native Americans Against Corrupt Politicians)
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To: JimSEA
This article would have particularly interested my Dad. He got irritated with the anthropologists who insisted the petroglyphs found in Arizona were just doodles made by ancient Indians. He firmly insisted they were conveying real information to each other. Have you seen David Talbot's "Symbols of an alien sky" videos yet? A lot of those "doodles" were drawings of high-energy plasma discharges that apparently were witnessed worldwide by ancient peoples. Absolutely fascinating videos. You can find them on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH7lrjixaNA
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03/12/2012 10:10:55 AM PDT
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Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
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03/12/2012 10:15:24 AM PDT
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JimSEA
To: SunkenCiv
And the Bronx only looks/acts like its prehistoric. ;) Hey, Hey, Hey. I live in the Bronx.
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03/12/2012 10:25:59 AM PDT
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JohnG45
To: SunkenCiv
From the caveman formerly known as Prince.
To: SunkenCiv
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03/12/2012 10:39:49 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
To: JimSEA
I think your Dad was correct.. they were marking their hood
much as is done nowadays by the denizens of the barrio with their placas.
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