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I don't mean to dig up an old thread, but damn - this is such a good post. You know its good when Stereoligist is all over it. Lets be serious for a moment Stereo - Lucas is presenting information - thats all. He be very very little amounts of personal opinion - only credible facts. He even says when it is his conjecture.
The realty is that petrographic data is incredibly hard to interpret.
How ironic, that we modern humans find it difficult to comprehend the meanings of our simple minded ancestors.
It does not take a rocket scientist to put these connections together.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by walkinglucid
The realty is that petrographic data is incredibly hard to interpret.
That's correct. Yet Lucus says he is only providing facts as he makes wild and unfounded speculations. He provides no facts. He provides nothing but opinions to support his failed claims.
How ironic, that we modern humans find it difficult to comprehend the meanings of our simple minded ancestors.
1. Why do you call it ironic?
2. Why do you claim they were simple minded?
The petroglyphs are rather recent in origin. Many are less than 1000 years old. The oldest ones are at most 10,000 years old in North America. They were made by people like you and I. The reason we do not understand the images well is that the images are not a written language or if they are there is not enough information to decipher that language.
You might want to do some reading on spiral petroglyphs and their interpretation by archaeologists, i.e. the people that have studied them and not some people speculating online.
It does not take a rocket scientist to put these connections together.
No. People put all things together that are unrelated. It happens all of the time.
The Peratt paper is interesting, but there are more mundane explanations for the shapes. The patterns seen in petroglyphs are also shapes that are drawn by people that experience trances. These shapes are "wired" into our brains. You do not need to have an external stimulus.
What sort of feedback is there on the Peratt paper? Has it been referenced by other authors? Is there anything in the archaeological journals?