“The bow and arrow was much better adapted to the denser forest cover: it was precise, rapid, and silent. But more significantly, it corresponded to an entirely new metaphysical relationship to nature –the bow overcame the constraints of speed, distance, and precision. Humans who mastered this technique came close to being natural gods by borrowing part of nature’s power. It is this that defines the veritable transition to the Mesolithic –a more advanced level of human dominance, due to the ability to think over the forces of nature”  –Otte, Marcel, “The Paleolithic-Mesolithic Transition” in Source book of Paleolithic Transitions, M. Camps, P. Chauhan (eds.), Springer, LLC 2009, p. 541”;

January 06, 2010

Dear Mr. Otte,

I would like to have your kind permission to quote your definition of “the bow and arrow” (The Paleolithic-Mesolithic Transition, page 541) in the Dictionary Section of my website (gokkogbitsik.com)

There, through a re-interpretation of ancient stamp-glyphs of Turkish, I am trying to show that visually perceived concepts of some primal symbols, such as “the bow and arrow”, have contributed much more to the formation of a Mother Tongue than subsequent effects of any development in human phonetics. As a result, our two stamps for “bow & arrow” can mean, 1) bow & arrow; 2) female & male; 3) writ[ing] & read[ing], in addition to other words thus generated.

With my best personal regards, I wish you a happy MMX.

Doğan Türker
 

 06 Ocak 2010 15:05

 To: doganturker

Very interesting !
I'd like knowing more about your work, sound so important:
have you any reprints ?
of course, quote everything you wish from my papers,
if you need anything else, just let me know, please send me yours
pdf whenever available,
let's keep in touch, my best wishes, Marcel.

   
Professeur Marcel OTTE
Service de Préhistoire
Université de Liège
7, place du XX août, bât. A1
4000 Liège BELGIQUE

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