The origins of ancient writing in the Southern Urals

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

And recently he made a new discovery, and not far from Chelyabinsk.

Maya is nonsense

Your hypotheses contradict the generally accepted point of view that a well-known and interesting history is somewhere in the south or in Central Russia, and here we have just thickets and rare settlements

- This is an extremely erroneous judgment! I dare to say that the development of civilization began in the South Urals. There are mountains and forests here, and not dense, but convenient for movement, water resources. Again finds (Arkaim, for example), testifying to the ancient history. And it all began long before Arkaim.

You don't have to go far to come across history. I was convinced of this by my own example. I made my first find while fishing - it was an ancient grain grater. And in my own garden, I discovered the remains of a Bronze Age settlement. He invited archaeologists, got to know them, began to take an interest in history himself - he pulled, as they say, thread by thread.

But isn't there some kind of break here: can all those people be considered our ancestors?

- Here is also an example of a stereotype: they say, it is unknown who lived here, and we are only recent newcomers. For example, ancient local decorations were often made in the form of a frog (among the Slavs, this is a symbol of purity and fertility). So, maybe we, our ancestors, lived here from the earliest times, and did not come at all in the 17th century? There are many such examples.

That's what annoys me the most: there are so many controversies about the Maya that they predicted there, what they discovered!.. Yes, we have more secrets at our side than the Maya! Rumor has it that they found a vessel with a Greek ornament. And if we talk about the age of the finds, on the contrary, the Greeks find vessels with the Ural ornament, because our cultures are more than 4 thousand years old!

I'm afraid not all scientists share your point of view

- Here you can argue for a long time, of course. But the main thing, in my opinion, is to change the approach itself. It is not necessary to open more mounds, but to work with information. Let's say that a huge amount of information has already been accumulated on a geometric ornament - we need to work with it. The true history of our ancestors is laid there.

Who knows, maybe in the future we will have to celebrate not 277 years of Chelyabinsk, but all 4 thousand! If this place seemed attractive to Russian settlers, then, most likely, it was used much earlier. One has only to dig deeper - perhaps in your own garden.

Our hexagrams

This is a pretty daring hypothesis

- I have evidence that the inhabitants of our land even invented mathematics and writing!

Where are these Ural letters and numbers?

- Casting molds were found for the bars, which were used to apply the brand to livestock. These two bars, in various combinations, were symbols for counting. The so-called proxima settlements were located here quite close to each other, there were a lot of cattle, so life itself forced, willy-nilly, to take up the basics of arithmetic.

It was the decimal system, encoded in the ancient swastika symbol. Each of its parts denoted a certain number, which in addition, multiplication, division or subtraction gave ten.

It turns out that our counting system is one of the oldest in the world?

- Right. And not just bills. At the bottom of Lake Smolino, a cliché was found - two parallel lines on an animal's bone to make prints on pottery. But these are not just patterns, this is a clear beginning of hexagrams, which are better known in their Chinese version - various combinations of points and lines that were used in fortune-telling.

But can you really call it writing?

- In some ways, all these symbols were a kind of writing, as they carried information. For the uninitiated, these are just patterns, the forms of which have been preserved since ancient times in the form of stripes on folk clothes, etc. But in fact, these were not just lines, but records, where, for example, information about field work, rainfall, weather, harvest, etc. is presented.

Bar to bar

What kind of unusual discovery did you manage to make?

- This is a stone wall that I found on the southwestern shore of Lake Bolshoy Kremenkul. Once there was a forest, then a pub appeared, where some artists even came. But the lake flooded this place, they arranged a beach nearby. As a result, after all the changes, a parapet of stone appeared through the sod and grass bedding.

Maybe this is a natural formation? We live in the Urals

- No, there are stones of different types - white and pink granite, quartz, sandstone. It is clear that man put them together. However, I still invited a geologist, who confirmed that this is a man-made formation. In fact, there are two walls with a total length of more than 200 meters, with 50 meters between them.

What could it be?

- I think the remains of a large settlement from the Eneolithic times. This assumption is supported by the fact that I found several ancient objects nearby in the lake. In addition, I learned that in the 80s, fragments of a vessel with an ornament were found here. Archaeologists nearby made three pits and stumbled upon fragments of pottery.

However, it is possible that the settlement was much later and was built by Russian settlers in the 17th-18th centuries. But then there would be remnants of various iron objects, traces of horse droppings - none of this. It is, of course, necessary to carry out large-scale excavations in order to collect more data. The problem is that part of the wall is located on a private territory, it is planned to carry out earthworks there, which could damage the find.

Is it possible to somehow guess what the settlement was like? What did its inhabitants do?

- My daughter at one time studied the lake, took samples from the bottom and did not find traces of tree species there. This means that the area around was cultivated, people probably were engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding. A wall of such a large circle was needed to protect the cattle that were driven into the village.

But these people were not only cattle breeders, they also made wonderful jewelry. In the north of the Sosnovsky region, a mold of chloride sandstone was found for women's jewelry. Gennady Zdanovich used this mold to cast copies of jewelry. It turned out to be a rather delicate work, which modern women of fashion are not ashamed to try on! I discovered not far from the wall a device with which an ancient jeweler poured liquid metal into molds.