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    Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice age ‘writing’ system

    A calendar used to record significant events, both terrestrial and celestial. 10,000 earlier than it was previously believed such things came into use. 20,000 years old. Deep in the last Ice Age, which ended 10,000 years ago.

    Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice age ‘writing’ system

    A primitive writing system used by ice age hunter-gatherers appears to have been uncovered by an amateur archaeologist, who concluded that the 20,000-year-old markings were a form of lunar calendar.


    The research suggests cave drawings were not only a form of artistic expression but also used to record sophisticated information about the timing of animals’ reproductive cycles.



    Ben Bacon spent countless hours trying to decode the “proto-writing” system, which is believed to predate other equivalent record-keeping systems by at least 10,000 years.


    He approached a team of academics with his theory and they encouraged him to pursue it, despite him being “effectively a person off the street”, he said.


    Bacon collaborated with a team, including two professors from Durham University and one from University College London, to publish a paper in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.


    Prof Paul Pettitt, an archaeologist at Durham University, said he was “glad he took it seriously” when Bacon contacted him. “The results show that ice age hunter-gatherers were the first to use a systemic calendar and marks to record information about major ecological events within that calendar,” he said.


    Cave paintings of species such as reindeer, fish and now extinct cattle called aurochs and bison have been found across Europe. Alongside these images, sequences of dots and other marks have been found in more than 600 ice age images on cave walls and portable objects across Europe. Archaeologists have long believed these markings had meaning but no one had deciphered them.


    Bacon set out to decode these, accessing previous research and cave art imagery at the British Library and searching for recurrent patterns, saying that it was “surreal” to be figuring out what people were saying 20,000 years ago.
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    ....something about "fresh eyes" comes to mind
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    The Hyperboreans!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    The Hyperboreans!
    I had to look it up.

    Maybe the Greeks had access to stories from their long past.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I had to look it up.

    Maybe the Greeks had access to stories from their long past.
    I only became familiar with the term after reading some Julius Evola and Rene Guenon. That's actually quite interesting and would appear to suggest that there is some truth to the legend.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    ....something about "fresh eyes" comes to mind
    Good find


    The problem is that Archaeologists have never been academically trained in related subjects like Astronomy, Mathematics, Engineering, ect......so they have often missed how advanced some of these ancient societies were in many things.
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    This is actually one of joe biden's high school English essays.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    ....something about "fresh eyes" comes to mind
    Good find
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    The problem is that Archaeologists have never been academically trained in related subjects like Astronomy, Mathematics, Engineering, etc......so they have often missed .
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    Exactly. And if Etymologists had any knowledge of Anthropology, they'd realize that many originated as a word meaning "hand" and is cognate with Latin manus. If they'd had any knowledge of hunting, they'd realize that dog comes from a prehistoric word meaning "pointer" and is cognate with Latin digitus, "finger" and the Greek root of paradigm, "something the reader can point to as the controlling idea."
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    Quote Originally Posted by OLD GUY IN FLORIDA View Post
    This is actually one of joe biden's high school English essays.
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