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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3505501, member: 98035"]Super acquisition! I had no idea that these seals were commercially available.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to start a real colorful debate, ask an Indian and a European anthropologist whether they think Brahmi is based off of Aramaic, or the Indus Script. I have actually seen pretty convincing arguments in favor of both.</p><p><br /></p><p>Added: Gobekli Tepe still has nothing against the animistic totems from the paleolithic era. The oldest uncontested is the "lion man" dated to the <b>40th millennium BC</b></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man</a><b> </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Most of the "Venus" figurines are similarly between 18,000 - 35,000 years old. IMO, the level of sophistication seen on some of the earliest of these indicates that there are probably even older finds still in the dirt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3505501, member: 98035"]Super acquisition! I had no idea that these seals were commercially available. If you want to start a real colorful debate, ask an Indian and a European anthropologist whether they think Brahmi is based off of Aramaic, or the Indus Script. I have actually seen pretty convincing arguments in favor of both. Added: Gobekli Tepe still has nothing against the animistic totems from the paleolithic era. The oldest uncontested is the "lion man" dated to the [B]40th millennium BC[/B] [url]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man[/url][B] [/B] Most of the "Venus" figurines are similarly between 18,000 - 35,000 years old. IMO, the level of sophistication seen on some of the earliest of these indicates that there are probably even older finds still in the dirt.[/QUOTE]
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