The First Writing
The Ancients
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What Are the Non Figurative Signs of Animals?
The abstract marks that have been found alongside these images yes and it is all about me to use to use that so obviously we focused on the wonderful images of the animals now but what we rather boringly call non figurative signs often accompany these images of animals. These their markings may be rows of lines or rows of simple dots either produced with a pigment or engraved and sometimes other signs that to use our modern language we might call why signs like the letter y or X's and this kind of thingNow we can tell that these were associated with depictions of animals and it's no surprise that we understand that they were probably saying something about these animals in no different way say to earliest Sumerian c
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