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Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

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Re: Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

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Reminds me of the also unbroken Indus script. With all this computational power, I'm surprised that we haven't been able to crack ancient proto-writing.

I wonder if anyone’s trying to decipher non human communication (dolphins, elephants).

Re: Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

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Haven't watched the linked TED video, but this:

>"The fact that the same 32 symbols are repeated across sites that span 30,000 years and an entire content is nothing less than mindblowing. "

Is both quite intriguing (if implication is true) but also raises the question of authenticity (if we're unkind) or at least accurate dating (if we're charitable).

Maybe the video goes into detail. (Apparently, it's claimed that upwards of 60% of the symbols/signs were expressed during the 30 thousand year span --which seems pretty incredible. I mean, the invariability seems somewhat preternatural.)

Re: Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

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Reminds me of the also unbroken Indus script. With all this computational power, I'm surprised that we haven't been able to crack ancient proto-writing.

I wonder if our brains have changed so much since then, that we may not be able to comprehend what the symbols originally meant.

Re: Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

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post #3

Reminds me of the also unbroken Indus script. With all this computational power, I'm surprised that we haven't been able to crack ancient proto-writing.

I wonder if anyone’s trying to decipher non human communication (dolphins, elephants).

https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/806287/dolphins-speech...

Re: Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

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Not only across Europe, they are more or less similar all over the world. https://visual.ly/community/infographic/science/prehistoric-...

Purely, on a lighter note:

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Re: Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015)

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post #5

Not only across Europe, they are more or less similar all over the world. https://visual.ly/community/infographic/science/prehistoric-...

I was ready to write this off as early humans ancestors depicting basic shapes of objects in their surroundings, until I got to the upside down and right side up “brush shapes”. I’m not sure what that would mean, something descending and ascending with some type of force or vitesse?
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