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.
aha! the lists are all missing the “hooked X”! (a conspiracy, no doubt!!)
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Elementary, my dear Watson.
Hate to say it but you runed the thread with that post!
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I’m of the opinion, uneducatedly of course, that what is “known” as the invention of writing now is merely the reinvention of lost capability from a much earlier period of human history.
Potbellied Hill pushed human urban dwelling back significantly in time. I don’t see any reason to believe even older sites wont be found and eventually records of written communication therein.
