Nah, my memory is going, lol
Below is a pottery shard dredged up from a 9,500 year old site off the Indian coast. Is that writing? (or, could it have been dropped off a ship onto the site?)
Nah, my memory is going, lol
Below is a pottery shard dredged up from a 9,500 year old site off the Indian coast. Is that writing? (or, could it have been dropped off a ship onto the site?)
Below is a pottery shard dredged up from a 9,500 year old site off the Indian coast. Is that writing? (or, could it have been dropped off a ship onto the site?)
Doh!--do you mean I've been spending the past hour digging through my notes on Greek archaeology for nothing?--LOL! Yeah, I've seen that one before--probably from you posting it, LOL! Don't know if it's "writing" or what. That one "m"-looking "winged" shape reminds me of some of the Neolithic European "shorthand" symbols Gimbutas discusses, so it may have that type of pictographic/ideographical significance rather than a logographical/alphabetical significance. The "y" shape reminds me (loosely) of a Greek Gamma or a Hebrew Ayin only modified to be less "curvy" in order to accomodate the hard medium the character appears to be inscribed on (like the shape of Western European runes are designed to be easier to cut into wood/stone surfaces); however it may not have the same meaning as a Gamma or Ayin and may not be alphabetical in significance. But who knows?--hard to tell without more information and without someone deciphering the meaning of the characters. In any case interesting.
The potsherd of 5500-6000 BC, found at the islet Yura of Northern Sporades bearing Greek alphabet letters. The facsimile to the classic Greek letters Alpha, Ypsilon and Delta can be recognized. This find proves that the classic Greek alphabet is older than the Greek linear alphabets. It also demolishes crushingly and definitely the false theory that Greeks took the alphabet from the Phoenicians, who emerged in history around 1150 BC, i.e. 4500-5000 years after the creation of the Yura written potsherd.And the Russians invented everything before the Americans. [rimshot!]
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