I argue they are not tools, but more likely something that has symbolic value (like an art or religious relic). Though many Acheulean biface are modest in appearance, there is a percentage that are quite artistic, even to modern standards. “They are a potent manifestation of an early and continuous human interest in perfection of …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:14 am Would you care to explain the relevance of this in relation to validating the Bible? The chipped flint is the most basic tool of mankind. I have a theory floating in the back of my mind, but before I reveal that, we need to reiterate the facts …
Another interesting artifact that is found common around the world is the Acheulean biface (or hand axe). I had posted this in Quora… A very interesting object is the oldest surviving shaped tool used by man, the Acheulean biface (or hand axe). Dates for its use varies but generally spans from 2.6 million years ago …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 3:00 pm Not knowing the all the details of the origin and development of every language does not mean there is no ‘naturalistic explanation’ for them. I think your source can be summarized by: “These issues and many others are undergoing lively investigation among linguists, psychologists, and biologists.” https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resou …
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Another “coincidence” among cultures is similarities in constellations. “The extant record indicates that astrological interpretations of celestial patterns date to ancient Mesopotamia.” https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/en … ient-world “Norris has worked with Indigenous Australians and learned many of their sky stories, including those of different groups who identify the Pleiades as seven girls being chased by the constellation …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:44 pm Genesis 11:6], the main point is that this is like so many other myths, a simple picture story used to explain why we have different languages. That this story could be taken seriously as an actual event in history is laughable. This is typical of myths around …
However the point of my chronology was that putting it earlier than the Ziggurats still doesn’t put it earlier than the Egyptian culture that produced tomb slabs (that led to the step pyramid) or (eventually) written Egyptian and thus the indirect evidence is that Egypt as a pyramid builder culture and Egyptian – speaking culture …
There’s also the suggestion that, since the Mesopotamians continues speaking Sumerian (until conquered by Akkad and Sumerian became the Mesopotamian Latin) and they carried on building Ziggurats until Assyria, wouldn’t that, rather than Babel, explain any resemblances without proving the Babel event? Sumer is most likely the land of Shinar in Gen 10:10, which is …
Some more ziggurat-like structures found around the world: Prasat Thom of Koh Ker temple in Cambodia: “Under the reign of the kings Jayavarman IV and Harshavarman II Koh Ker was briefly the capital of the whole empire (928–944 AD). Unparalleled is the 36-metre (118 ft)-high seven‑tiered pyramid, which most probably served as state temple[4]: 103 of …
You may not be concerned about putting the theory into the generally – accepted ancient Chronology, but I was and it does show that the predynastic Egyptian culture undermines the Babel -theory for how various languages originated. As for generally accepted theories and dates for origins of written languages, there is none. As I’ve mentioned, …
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