Are these Neanderthal etchings a long-lost message?

FoxNews.com/Science ^ | May 8, 2018 | Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | LiveScience

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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.

[Ancesthntr]

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

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[a fool in paradise]

Is THAT where the modern hipsters found that look?

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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.

[a fool in paradise]

So those are bunny claw marks?

[teeman8r]

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

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Lol!

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[TnTnTn]

Ohhhh........I can just make it out... ‘Make America Great Again’....

[Chances Are]

I understand you lose something in the translation.

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

CA....

[Reily]

Guess so!

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[Prospero]

Spam from that Nigerian “prince.”

[teeman8r]

Exactly. Tthanks

[ApplegateRanch]

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

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Diamond Point Cold Chisel

[Jack Hammer]

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

[gleeaikin]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

That could be as well. That method could have been fairly commonplace in the paleolithic, but easy for an archaeologist to ignore.