To me, this makes a lot of sense. It's hard for me to believe that writing suddenly appeared. Plus the similarities among these symbols worldwide leads one to think they have definite meaning for the artists. They convey meaning to the viewer.
1 posted on
11/12/2016 9:06:16 AM PST by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
If the world began again, it would go through the exact same pattern of growth through the ages. Just give a child a crayon....and watch what happens...
To: JimSEA
To me, this makes a lot of sense. It’s hard for me to believe that writing suddenly appeared.
The interesting one for me are hieroglyphs. A phonetic system, but one which looked logogrammatic. A phonetic system of writing is abstract; breaking down the sounds of a word into sound components and representing the components with a symbol is not how one would envision a language evolving.
I’ve never read of a precursor to Egyptian hieroglyphs being discovered. It’s as if that language just appears fully formed. What are its origins? Is it from an older undiscovered precursor civilization?
3 posted on
11/12/2016 9:30:16 AM PST by
Flick Lives
(Les Deplorables Triumphant!)
To: JimSEA
David Talbott , a cave art researcher has come up with some interesting theories that ancient cave dwellers may have been geometries they were witnessing in the night sky as charged objects like comets hurled through the solar system with spectacular displays. They didn't have media like we do today, but people all over the world were networked together by what everyone saw in the heavens , and is a real possibility why many abstract figures are found in similar forms thought the world in caves.
https://youtu.be/piKuO4YeRFQ
4 posted on
11/12/2016 9:33:37 AM PST by
seastay
To: JimSEA
Very interesting. Somewhat like the new movie The Arrival.
It’s a subscription site, so we can’t see the whole article, but it looks very interesting.
5 posted on
11/12/2016 9:57:43 AM PST by
livius
To: JimSEA
6 posted on
11/12/2016 10:00:55 AM PST by
dfwgator
To: JimSEA
” On the reverse were three etched symbols: a line, an X and another line. “
Urg and Thag BFF.
7 posted on
11/12/2016 10:12:20 AM PST by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: JimSEA
Translated, the code read: Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
To: JimSEA
I suspect those marks are for numbering things. How people began to recognize images as symbolic representations of the world is a tough cookie to crack. How would they make an image if they've never made or seen one before? It is a chicken and egg problem. A great documentary series that attempts to explain this is
How Art Made the World.
10 posted on
11/12/2016 11:16:40 AM PST by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: JimSEA
11 posted on
11/12/2016 12:19:31 PM PST by
mikrofon
(Cursive, boiled again ;!)
To: JimSEA
Isn’t “ugh” the first word?
23 posted on
03/03/2020 5:49:53 AM PST by
Leep
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