Re: [tied] Neolithic/Chalcolithic writing.

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 3440
Date: 2000-08-29

Mark:
>I've a new book, the last one by Marija Gimbutas, The Living Goddess.[...]
>--start quote--
>Around 5500-5000, ingriguing combinations of signs appear in the
> >archaeological record, contemporaneous with the conceptual symbol >script
>discussed above. [...] It is important to observe that these >signs indeed
>represent writing; [...] the script signs appear in rows >or clusters with
>several different signs following one another ....

I came across this in Gimbutas' material as well. Perhaps it was the same
book I saw. It impressed me and really gives one pause to think.
Alot seems to happen at around 5500 BCE, doesn't it?

- gLeN

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