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ryschwith t1_jeggy3q wrote

Reply to comment by A40 in TIL an amateur archaeologist discovered European cave paintings used a proto-writing system meant to convey the gestation period of the various animals they painted by using dots to indicate the lunar cycle. by AudibleNod

I don’t know, the paper has some pretty compelling data. Certainly not a slam dunk—I’d like to see the symbols interpreted/recorded by someone not directly associated with the study to remove possible bias from that process, for example—but solid enough to be worth getting more eyes on it.

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A40 t1_jeghjr2 wrote

The 'symbols' look like this (make them bigger/smearier): . . .

(They might be mosquitoes. Or spits. Or signatures.)

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Muroid t1_jegky7a wrote

What they look like is kind of irrelevant. If they’re consistent, they’re consistent. If they’re not, they’re not.

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ryschwith t1_jegkyqu wrote

If they were random splotches they wouldn’t fit well to the expected patterns.

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