Posted on 10/19/2002 10:28:48 AM PDT by vannrox
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?
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.
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.
Who the devil were these farmers? Weren't we taught that the Sumerians were the first farmers?
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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."
the Egyptians did not use cuneiformWell, they did, the Amarna archive is largely cuneiform. That's of much later date however than 3500 BC. :')
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Google search for quipu, which is what that "cuneiform" pattern may resemble. Assuming the artifact isn't a modern fake.
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No, they don't, except for the shape of the impressions.
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