The Monolith of Pokotia (Sumerian Language etched on Ancient Mesopotamian Items)!

Bernardo Biadós Yacovazzo & Freddy Arce, ^ | FR Post 10-19-2002 | Bernardo Biadós Yacovazzo & Freddy Arce

[thulldud]

Turkish is agglutinative. One classic example is the provocative question:

Fotograflardakilerdenmisiniz?

This thing contains one independent noun, and all the rest of it is suffixes ( which are what Turkish uses to embody morphemes ), and the whole thing is a complete, understandable sentence:

"Are you one of the people in the photographs?"

And if you think that one is bad, they've got worse. I don't know any Sumerian, but it must be like this.

[aristeides]

A bowl, whenever it was originally produced, could have been an object of trade much later.

However, 3500/3000 BC does sound very early even for the production. Isn't the earliest Sumerian writing in cuneiform supposed to be from around 3000?

[aristeides]

Comments?

[RightWhale]

this article is really screwed up

It's probably the mixed up nature of South American and North American ruins that makes such an article possible. It's hard to sort archaeology from blue sky speculation, but thanks for the linguistics notes.

[blam]

"Comments?"

I haven't any idea whether or not this writing is connected in any way to the Sumerians. It does look (untrained eye)similar to me though. Do I believe ancient people from other continents were in the Americas in prehistory, yes.

The oldest dated skeleton ever found in the Americas was an African woman, Luzia, dated at 11,500 years old. You have cocaine and nicotine in the mummies of the Egyptians, etc, etc. Futhermore, we have all been mislead in thinking that the Sumerians were the first civilization with the first writing system, this is BS, pure and simple. Click on the below link and go to post #18 to see some 9,500 year old writing.

Lost Civilisation From 7,500BC Discovered Off Indian Coast

[blam]

Rainforest Researchers Hit Paydirt (Farming 11K Years Ago In South America)

Who the devil were these farmers? Weren't we taught that the Sumerians were the first farmers?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, I think!

[blam]

"Comments?"

Good morning. So...what do you think of my comments?

[aristeides]

Archaeologists oversimplify. They assume that what they discover is all there is. A lot of things may have existed earlier than we know, in some other place.

[LostTribe]

>Archaeologists oversimplify

That's true. And some grossly complicate. To start with very little and come up with the fanciful tales we see is little short of the Creative Archeology/Anthropology contest. Then this stuff gets picked up by schoolbook publishers and taught as fact to students.

"It ain't what we know that hurts us, it's what we know that ain't so."

[SunkenCiv]

the Egyptians did not use cuneiform

Well, they did, the Amarna archive is largely cuneiform. That's of much later date however than 3500 BC. :')

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[SunkenCiv]

Google search for quipu, which is what that "cuneiform" pattern may resemble. Assuming the artifact isn't a modern fake.

[AFreeBird]

B4L8r

[RightWhale]

do not look like any kind of cuneiform

No, they don't, except for the shape of the impressions.

[SunkenCiv]

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