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3. Fun-Fact about spoken Stone-Age languages:

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 05:02 AM

Mar 2019

Basque is the last remaining member of a language-family dating back to the Stone-Age. That's why Basque is unique and has no connections to other european languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Basque_language

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Stone Age Cave Symbols May All Be Part of a Single Prehistoric Proto-Writing System [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2019 OP

Big K&R! nt tblue37 Mar 2019 #1

The five-circles symbol... DetlefK Mar 2019 #2

Fun-Fact about spoken Stone-Age languages: DetlefK Mar 2019 #3

i keep seeing a chart of extended ascii characters rampartc Mar 2019 #4

Note that the human hand . . . MrModerate Mar 2019 #5

Absolutely fascinating! Silver Gaia Mar 2019 #7

Our distant ancestors had a a proto-writing system, Ramsey Barner Mar 2019 #8

+1 Mister Ed Mar 2019 #9

Good one! Thanks. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #11

Awesome Duppers Mar 2019 #10