Monday, March 22, 2010

EGGSHELL writings(:

This story was about how acient people wrote on different materials in symbols. New studies show that, an ancient culture in South Africa used ostrich eggshells to make symbols 60,000 years ago. These shells represent some of the earliest evidence yet for people engraving designs. The eggshells were discovered over the last few years. They were all found in peices with little symbol sctrachings on them. The largest peice found was as big as a thumbnail. There were 270 peices found. They had to have come from more than 25 eggs. There were little patterns on the eggs as if there were letters. That is all they had. Until then they have no further information on the shells. In my opinion , the scientists should look further into the eggshells. I think it would be a good source to find out things from ancient times. Thge should also preserve the shells by putting them on display or something for other people to look at.

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