Proto Coneiform In Ancient Orkney?
A Sumerian written system finding its way in the far northwest?
Orkney in the historical era is haven’t assume to be a backwater at very edges of the world. But thanks to its iconic Neolithic age monuments, it have gotten the attention of generations of antiquarians, archaeologists, and researchers. In the early 21th century, the true significant of these islands come into more focus by the discovery of the so named Ness of Brodgar. After two decades of excavation many objects, carved with odd features have been uncover.
But nearly eight decades before the true significant of the Ness of Brodgar was reveal, a stone with piacular carvings was uncover by a farmer ploughing by what was then a filed of farm land. For a century the carvings themselves receive little examination.
Sumerian Proto-Cuneiform was a processor to the later cuneiform systems of the ancient Near-East. Proto-Cuneiform was the more early version of the more abstract cuneiform that was adapted by the Akkadians, Syrians, Hittites and Persians.
According to current evidence, Ness of the Brodgar was active 3500-2500BC, the main phases according 3200BC-2800BC, at that point “Cuneiform” was still in its proto-cuneiform form. Proto-Cuneiform characters and there assume sounds could be found here.
Going back to the Brodgar Stone at six of the eight do corresponds to known Proto-Cuneiform characters.
here is a stone fragment with proto-cuneiform looking characters
here is another example carved in stone.
There is a more clearer example.
Orkney and Sumer may have been a long way apart, but there are clear examples of objects and ideas reaching long distances in the pre globalize world. The idea that proto-Cuneiform having a influence in Orkney isn’t a impossibility.