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An uber-quipu!<BR>
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And on the subject of Australian settlement, there are cave paintings in Northern Australia showing high prowed ocean going canoes. Settlement's possible either through island hopping or longer maritime jaunts: Take your pick!<BR> <BR>
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From: ahnen@hotmail.com<BR>To: runequest@rpgreview.net<BR>Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 11:18:57 -0700<BR>Subject: Re: [Runequest] Literate Neolithics?<BR><BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Apologies if this was covered already, but there is a group in Africa where supposedly people can speak a verbal message while an 'expert' ties knots on a cord...then when the cord is unwound by another 'expert' in another area, the 'expert' speaks the message both accurately and verbatim. Hey, it's legend...but possibly appropriate for a neolithic setting.<BR> <BR>
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<DIV id=ecxSkyDrivePlaceholder></DIV>> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 10:50:18 +0200<BR>> From: postmaster@runequest.za.org<BR>> To: runequest@rpgreview.net<BR>> Subject: Re: [Runequest] Literate Neolithics?<BR>> <BR>> lev@rpgreview.net wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > We don't have any evidence that Australia was settled by paleolithic<BR>> > oceanic craft. Certainly the bark canoes (or more probably, driftwood)<BR>> > could have made coastal journeys at best, island hopping across the<BR>> > Indonesian archipelago, making it to the ice-age land bridge that existed<BR>> > between Australia and New Guinea. It wasn't until the seventeenth century<BR>> > CE, by best estimations, that the powerful dugout canoes were in use.<BR>> ><BR>> There was a national geographic article about this. A land bridge to<BR>> australia due to low ocean levels from ice age. Also explains the<BR>> different evolution of Australia insofar a deep sea trench stopped<BR>> africanised type colonisation. (Elephants etc). Cant remember much of<BR>> article, but for sure made good reading at the time.<BR>> Tony<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Runequest mailing list<BR>> Runequest@rpgreview.net<BR>> http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net<BR></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________ Runequest mailing list Runequest@rpgreview.net http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</DIV> </div></body>
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