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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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| 11/9/2016
| Alison George
Posted on 11/12/2016 9:06:16 AM PST by JimSEA
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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.
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11/12/2016 9:06:16 AM PST
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JimSEA
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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...
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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?
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11/12/2016 9:30:16 AM PST
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Flick Lives
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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
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11/12/2016 9:33:37 AM PST
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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.
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11/12/2016 9:57:43 AM PST
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livius
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11/12/2016 10:00:55 AM PST
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dfwgator
To: JimSEA
” On the reverse were three etched symbols: a line, an X and another line. “
Urg and Thag BFF.
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11/12/2016 10:12:20 AM PST
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PLMerite
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To: JimSEA
Translated, the code read: Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
To: livius
There are lots of interesting articles in New Scientist but seldom post them because of the restrictions. However, I couldn’t find an alternate source for this and it was a good concept. Sorry.
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11/12/2016 10:39:39 AM PST
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JimSEA
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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.
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11/12/2016 11:16:40 AM PST
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Nateman
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11/12/2016 12:19:31 PM PST
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mikrofon
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11/12/2016 12:25:13 PM PST
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JimSEA
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Thanks for the humor break. lol
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11/12/2016 3:07:12 PM PST
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Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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SunkenCiv
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Note: this topic is from . Thanks JimSEA.
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in. Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger has studied and codified these ancient markings in caves across Europe. The uniformity of her findings suggest that graphic communication, and the ability to preserve and transmit messages beyond a single moment in time, may be much older than we think.
Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe | Genevieve von Petzinger | TED | Published on December 18, 2015
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SunkenCiv
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a fool in paradise
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To her right, you see the universal symbol for bacon.
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Redcitizen
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The map showing where the various symbols are found could play hob with theories on Clovis origins.
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ApplegateRanch
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***
Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe***
Moss media!
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03/02/2020 7:40:56 PM PST
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Bob Ireland
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To: ApplegateRanch
***The map showing where the various symbols are found could play hob with theories on Clovis origins***
Interesting, and very perceptive. Still, linguists have argued that commonality across continents of artistic symbols does not prove commonality of origin.
For more extensive discussion on this subject in the New World you might like to read James Bailey, The God Kings and Titans.
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03/02/2020 10:05:01 PM PST
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Bob Ireland
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