From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 20:31:39 MST
On 19 Jan 2002 at 15:02, Yash wrote:
> The interesting point then seems to be to me:
>
> How do we recognize decoration/doodling from symbolic representations?
>
> Especially since a decoration can also be of a symbolic nature?
>
> Yash.
>
Because back then, the engraving would have been of an imagistic or
iconic nature, that is, it would have resembled that which it was
intended to represent. The symbol would have resembled its referent.
Simple crosshatches do not seem to resemble any particular thing.
>
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> On 19 Jan 2002 at 6:39, Yash wrote:
> >Ancient Engravings Push Back Origin of Abstract Thought
>
> Actually, I already knew about these marked ochres. There is much
> debate as to whather the marking actually stand for something (which
> would render them symbolic) or whether they were just decoration or
> doodling.
>
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