the species at that time would have been h erectus or h nalidi, and i don't think we have found any nalidi outside that one s african cave.

i love your articles, judy, the other one tonight ws the clovis diet of megafauna. how long would it take a large family or small tribe to eat a mammoth? much less to eat ALL the mammoths? hell, we still have lefyover turkey.

They already made clay pots so they knew how to fire clay. But to me it seems it was a lot more important reason to be done that way. In Sumeria you had clay tablets that weren’t fired used as almost a scratch pad temporary means to record something. Then for more important things they fired the clay. And the most important they carved into stone. It’s just curious what could they consider so important yet so small it was made like that? Something that they wanted to record for decades or more. Another thing to remember is a character may not be what most people think of as an individual letter. A character could mean a whole word. Something they wrote in 60 characters could take us a full page to write out. On the bottom it has a swirl. That to me is interesting. Most ancient people put special meanings into it. Cosmology, spiritual, renewal, burial, and the list goes on.

Could it be a signature of an official.

Or some sort of mark indicating an official document.

Laws, rules, proclamation, recording of important historical event.

"You can double your investment, just hand over all your cows and pigs to our private account."

on other pottery in the eastern Mediterranean region. Here is a Greek example. Note that the design is a curved swirl on the main body of this vase, but near the neck, it is in a square form. Just coincidentally, the square form occurs on pre-Columbian buildings and pottery in Mesoamerica. No, that does NOT mean a connection between ancient Greece and Mesoamerica. It means that the human mind develops similar doodles and designs no matter where people live.

https://images.app.goo.gl/wPE2xQ2uoMvNHJud7

Fascinating! K&R
Thanx for posting.

Many deep layers that ha haven't been discovered yet.

.. that they are Avalon, that King Aurthur came there after his defeat in France, that all of this is, of course, part of the Great, Tragic Lost Cause. Did King Arthur have black slaves?

Note all the groves are the same widtth. The with of the rotary bit used to carve it. You can even see the scaloping left by the tool.

... I think it is possible someone 'salted' the site.

You educate and inform me of so much.
Thank you

It loosely translates to "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

One of the reasons I decided to go back to school to study Anthropology was because of early signs and symbols. I have seen that the spiral, circle, sun disc, cross, arrow, etc are found all over the world...and wonder if they are like a collective consciousness thing that "bloomed" at the same time?
Some of these symbols can be seen in cave paintings and petroglyphs, even though the dates of those are hugely different...it's like those symbols are like the "proto-language" seeds before actual writing begins...

This looks machined...i wonder if the date is correct? If so, there's way more to the human story than we could have known...

Thanks for sharing!