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Title: Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford
Authors: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957 Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph), 1866-1943
Subjects: Anthropology Classical philosophy Picture-writing
Publisher: Osford : At the Claredon Press
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ninsula.Some stir was recently made by the reported discoveryof characters on the slabs and content of certainPortuguese dolmens of Traz-os-Montes,1 which weresupposed to consti-tute a kind of alpha-bet or syllabary. Theaccounts of thesediscoveries, how-ever, lack scientificprecision, andthough many of thecharacters foundare certainly of al-phabetiform type,there can be no doubt that these, together withthe rude zoomorphic figures with which they areassociated, belong to a much simpler stage of graphicexpression. In the south of Spain the chain of evidence iscontinued by the Written Stones of Andalusia.The signs here are often painted in red, in a rudemanner, on the slabs of megalithic structures, such asthe Piedra Escrita near Fuencaliente,2 (Figs. 17,18).The signs include a variety of men and animals, 1 Ricardo Severo, As Necropoles Dolmenicas di Traz-os-Montes (Portugalia t. i. Oporto, 1903). 2 Don Manuel de Gongora y Martinez, Antigiiedades pre-histdricas deAndalucia, pp. 64 seqq.
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Fig. 17. 38 THE EUROPEAN DIFFUSION OF lect. symbols of the heavenly bodies, trees, arms, andimplements, and other objects. Amongst somecurious analogies that they present with the contem-porary pictographs of Northern and North-WesternEurope, may be noticed certain figures that resemblelinear degenerations of the Ship and Crew sign (seeFig. 17). The Andalusian pictographs find their continuationbeyond the straits in another widely diffused groupof Written Stones, the Hadjrat Mektoubatx of theArabs, extending through Algeria and Morocco intothe Saharan region and along the Atlantic littoralto the Canaries.2To return to the European shores of the Mediter-ranean, a remarkablegroup of prehistoricrock-carvings alreadyknown in mediaevaltimes as the Mara-viglie, or Marivels \3is found near the Coldi Tenda in the Mari-time Alps—in theneighbourhood, thatis, of a very old line of communication betweenProvence and the Po Valley. The earliest knowngroups of these figures lay at an elevation of
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Identifier: anthropologyclas00evan
Title: Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford
Authors: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957 Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph), 1866-1943
Subjects: Anthropology Classical philosophy Picture-writing
Publisher: Osford : At the Claredon Press
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ninsula.Some stir was recently made by the reported discoveryof characters on the slabs and content of certainPortuguese dolmens of Traz-os-Montes,1 which weresupposed to consti-tute a kind of alpha-bet or syllabary. Theaccounts of thesediscoveries, how-ever, lack scientificprecision, andthough many of thecharacters foundare certainly of al-phabetiform type,there can be no doubt that these, together withthe rude zoomorphic figures with which they areassociated, belong to a much simpler stage of graphicexpression. In the south of Spain the chain of evidence iscontinued by the Written Stones of Andalusia.The signs here are often painted in red, in a rudemanner, on the slabs of megalithic structures, such asthe Piedra Escrita near Fuencaliente,2 (Figs. 17,18).The signs include a variety of men and animals, 1 Ricardo Severo, As Necropoles Dolmenicas di Traz-os-Montes (Portugalia t. i. Oporto, 1903). 2 Don Manuel de Gongora y Martinez, Antigiiedades pre-histdricas deAndalucia, pp. 64 seqq.
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Fig. 17. 38 THE EUROPEAN DIFFUSION OF lect. symbols of the heavenly bodies, trees, arms, andimplements, and other objects. Amongst somecurious analogies that they present with the contem-porary pictographs of Northern and North-WesternEurope, may be noticed certain figures that resemblelinear degenerations of the Ship and Crew sign (seeFig. 17). The Andalusian pictographs find their continuationbeyond the straits in another widely diffused groupof Written Stones, the Hadjrat Mektoubatx of theArabs, extending through Algeria and Morocco intothe Saharan region and along the Atlantic littoralto the Canaries.2To return to the European shores of the Mediter-ranean, a remarkablegroup of prehistoricrock-carvings alreadyknown in mediaevaltimes as the Mara-viglie, or Marivels \3is found near the Coldi Tenda in the Mari-time Alps—in theneighbourhood, thatis, of a very old line of communication betweenProvence and the Po Valley. The earliest knowngroups of these figures lay at an elevation of
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