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A40 t1_jeghjr2 wrote

Reply to comment by ryschwith 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

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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