[BenLurkin]

Fascinating!

Note # 26 — in the Levant. I wonder if that is just the tip of broader cultural diffusion into the Middle-East (lost through time under the footprint of successive successful civilizations.)

[SunkenCiv]

As long as the foolish insistence that there's a single geographical origin for so-called anatomically modern humans, and that it's in the fairly recent past, is taken seriously, there's no chance for that idea. :')

In her Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology, Mary Settegast reproduces a table which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Paleolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet.