Word: achevlian
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...about Alexander Marshack's research into the origins of human communications. Cro-Magnon man is a member of Homo sapiens sapiens, and not a different species. The Upper Paleolithic era dates from 35,000 to 10,000 B.C., and not from 10,000 to 8000 B.C. as reported. The Achevlian rib engravings are not exactly the same kind as those done in the Upper Paleolithic, but are made in the same way over a period of time...
...addition, Marshack said that engravings on a five inch section of an ox rib, in 135,000 B.C. during the Achevlian period, were of "exactly the same kind" as those during the Paleolithie period...
...This Achevlian hunter was accumulating over a period of time a series of symbols and images. It is remarkable that he was structuring his life symbolically, and that he was coming back to the same image and using it time after time." the 54-year-old scientist said...
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