Monday, February 10, 2020
They say Denisovans met Neanderthals
Serban V.C. Enache glides
over it all
Read
this review by Serban V.C. Eniche, serbanvcenache@yahoo.ro, ROUMANIE, January
17, 2020. Alexander Marshack – in his revised edition from 1991 The Roots of
Civilization – makes very bold statements. Some are incongruent with basic
logic, like claiming the Old European hominins didn't know how to count and
hadn’t the notion of time. It's one thing to argue that they weren't
sophisticated, it's another to argue that they were clueless. With respect to
counting, counting on fingers would imply a system of finger 1 all to way to
finger 5 [10 on both hands], so even if the concept of say ‘342 tribesmen’ was
foreign to them, it doesn't mean they couldn't recognize such a multitude and
keep track of it, albeit in a much more complicated manner of accounting. Again,
crude mathematics is different than no mathematics. [...]
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:10 PM 
