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Are these Neanderthal etchings a long-lost message?
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | May 8, 2018 | Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | LiveScience

Posted on 05/16/2018 10:21:01 AM PDT by ETL

A Neanderthal seems to have left a message etched in stone about 35,000 years ago, a new study finds.

An analysis of the slanted, zigzag lines — engraved on a piece of flint discovered at a Neanderthal site in Crimea — reveals that they likely weren't made willy-nilly. Rather, the Neanderthal artist would have needed excellent fine motor skills and attention to detail to etch the lines, which may carry symbolic meaning, the researchers said.

If this new interpretation is correct, the engraved piece of flint will join a growing list of artifacts showing that Neanderthals were likely complex beings who partook in symbolic activities, including intentionally burying their dead and decorating ornaments, the researchers said.

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KEYWORDS: artifacts; crimea; epigraphyandlanguage; etching; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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To: ETL

The Neanderthal prankster put down his etching tool and chuckled, “Just think, thirty-five thousand years from now some group of idiots will be looking at this etching and thinking it says something important!”


41 posted on 05/16/2018 11:23:43 AM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Diversity for the sake of diversity is just flat out stupidity.)
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To: SpinnerWebb
Speaking of the late Thag Simmons...


42 posted on 05/16/2018 11:25:00 AM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: ETL

I’m sure it was a warning against fossil fuels because they would cause global warming.


43 posted on 05/16/2018 11:38:05 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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Archeological study reveals unique 35,000-year-old culture [cave in the Galilee]
Jerusalem Post | May 1, 2018 | Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
Posted on 05/07/2018 2:55:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3653193/posts


44 posted on 05/16/2018 11:42:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; ASA Vet; Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. And thanks Red Badger for sending a link to a Pop Mechanics article about it, back on the 5th.

45 posted on 05/16/2018 11:42:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: ETL

Kind of like a bored kid whittling on a stick just for something to do...


46 posted on 05/16/2018 11:43:38 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: ETL

Looks like a binary numbering system to me.


47 posted on 05/16/2018 11:44:14 AM PDT by jim_trent
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To: ETL

Flint?
what did he have to scratch flint? Flint is hardness 7

Actually, the flint appears to have a coating that was scratched


48 posted on 05/16/2018 11:48:33 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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To: ETL

My guess is it’s simply where the person sharpening the edge of another flint, tested it against that one..............if you’ve ever seen a worn down whetstone you know what I mean.................


49 posted on 05/16/2018 11:55:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: bert

Teflon?...........Kevlar?..............


50 posted on 05/16/2018 11:56:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Red Badger

Whoops.

This Could Be Neanderthal Art
Those etchings didn’t come from nowhere.
By David Grossman
May 3, 2018
Majkic, et. al
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a20140099/neanderthal-symbolic-art-study/


51 posted on 05/16/2018 12:06:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: ETL; Chode; Squantos; snooter55; All

Well, from the angle I’m looking at this...

Yeah ! That’s it The Long Lost Instructional Drawings on how to Assemble the Giant Grasshopper Drone Kit!!!


52 posted on 05/16/2018 12:24:39 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Progress- the opposite of congress))
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To: SunkenCiv

Drink your ovaltine


53 posted on 05/16/2018 12:32:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s a chopping block for chopping brocolli.


54 posted on 05/16/2018 12:33:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

+1


55 posted on 05/16/2018 12:38:05 PM PDT by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: ETL

It was modern art back then.


56 posted on 05/16/2018 12:44:46 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: C210N

Counting the days in jail


57 posted on 05/16/2018 12:54:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Jay Redhawk

Thag’s desk. He was busy carving cartoons during class lectures


58 posted on 05/16/2018 12:56:01 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: ETL
If this new interpretation is correct, the engraved piece of flint will join a growing list of artifacts showing that Neanderthals were likely complex beings who partook in symbolic activities, including intentionally burying their dead and decorating ornaments, the researchers said.

What idiots those researchers are.

They continually equate primitive with stupid.

I'd like to see those researchers survive thrown out in the wild with NOTHING to start with and see how well they do.

59 posted on 05/16/2018 1:20:09 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: MHGinTN

60 posted on 05/16/2018 1:23:31 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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