Animation Discovered On 5,200-year-old Pottery.

photojack

12th March 2008 - 03:11 PM

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/12/anima...discovered.html (Original link.)

I counted nine sequential images with the goat completing two leaps. Amazing!

At frame #4, the goat takes the second leap and at frame #7, he bites the upper leaf. Ancient Iranian pottery in museum and private collections should be re-examined to see if this was more widespread.

Wikipedia mentions nothing of this sort in its article on the history of animation. It also doesn't have the word "lithoglyph" used in the article! Could they have meant petroglyph?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation

xtrmn8r

13th March 2008 - 01:11 AM

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It also doesn't have the word "lithoglyph" used in the article! Could they have meant petroglyph?

No. As near as I can tell they meant what they said.

http://www.answers.com/lithoglyphs+?gwp=11...9&method=3&au=1

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