[JimSEA]

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.

[Sacajaweau]

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...

[Flick Lives]

To me, this makes a lot of sense. It’s hard for me to believe that writing suddenly appeared.

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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?

[seastay]

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

[livius]

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.

[dfwgator]

[PLMerite]

” On the reverse were three etched symbols: a line, an X and another line. “

Urg and Thag BFF.

[WKUHilltopper]

Translated, the code read: Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

[Nateman]

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.

[mikrofon]

[Leep]

Isn’t “ugh” the first word?