Yeah, but for every single instance of every single one of those glyphs, someone needs to publish a paper substantiating similarity to whatever that archetype is. You can't just put up a pretty font diagram and announce "They use the hand symbol here".

This is the same thing as all those stories about the Impossible Black Hole That Should Not Be There illustrated with something the graphics department threw together in photoshop.

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jampekka 3 days ago | parent [-]

Such work e.g. here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00704-x

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ants_everywhere 3 days ago | parent [-]

hatching and crosses are used even today on tools to make them easier to grip. We'd expect them on smooth and hard tools made of bone or rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knurling

	▲	jampekka 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		These patterns are found in paintings too.