Cliff carvings may rewrite history of Chinese characters

Xinhua News Agency ^ | 5-18-07 | unknown

[Sam Ketcham]

Probably the late Celtic period.

[muawiyah]

OF course not. The Mormon story is of recent vintage (early 1800s) ~ and even it's internal claims are relatively recent (500 BC).

We are talking about 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. According to a recent scientific report the genes that make white folks into white folks had not even come into being at the time.

[PuTiDaMo]

The following link mentions a set of symbols discovered in 2003 on turtle shell artifacts dating 8,600 years ago, excavated at the Jiahu site in the central Chinese province of Henan. I’m surprised that they completely forgot to mention them, as they predate or are at least contemporary with the Ningxia Damaidi symbols, and resemble later Chinese characters as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2956925.stm

[SunkenCiv]

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