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Alexander Marshack, through studies of engravings in bone by Cro-Magnon man of 8-10,000 B.C., has published his findings in a book. The Roots of Civilization, and in a report in the November 24 issue of Science magazine...
...Marshack claims that, with the use of a microscope, he can determine the tool used in engraving and the order in which the engravings were inscribed...
...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...
...implications of this could be fantastically important in tracing the origin of language.) but these are implications of something that has only been tentatively presented." Marshack said...