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Anthropology

MrModerate

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5. Note that the human hand . . .

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2019, 05:51 AM

Mar 2019

Shows up in nearly all these early "languages."

Was it that common a symbol because of some universality of "the hand" to humans, or was it common because it's such an easy image to make?

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