<bron175.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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Some of the engraved bone
artifacts found near Mullelrup Mose, Denmark, and attributed to Neolithic
industry, are in fact of much later date.
This example recorded by P. Reinecke, is lettered in
Iberian-Phoenician script and dates from between 1500 and 1200 BC. it is a trader's receipt for the purchase
of cloth by payment of one cow's value of barter goods. The word wag, to be read from right to left in the Semitic manner, is one
of the ancient Indo-European roots, meaning a heifer or cow. it survives in
Iberia today as vaca, and related forms
occur in all the Romance languages (Fell 1982). |
