Reality Check
Penultimate Amazing
Nothing in my post about "trademarks and artistic styles".
Nothing in my post about only one way to depict hands.
There is no way that EI in around AD 1000 could have been inspired by people who did not exist (GT was abandoned 9,000 year earlier
!).Neolithic people who did not have ocean-going skills 9-12 thousands years ago could not get to Easter Island.
The Nike example is stupid because it is a modern, commercial logo spread by a modern civilization with modern technologies.
The hand carving comparison is very ignorant because people have hands! So when they depict hands, it is rational to expect most of the depictions to be similar. I know of one exception - Maori carvings commonly have three fingers and a thumb and sometimes less.
When people depict hands picking up things from above (or strangling? a bird) they will point downward.
There is the fantasy of a "globally connected" civilization only able to communicate about hands which is why I asked:
13 November 2017: Where the carvings of foxes, etc. on Easter Island? Where the moai, makemake, birdmen, etc. at Göbekli Tepe?
We can even push that hand fantasy further.
Are the hands in Greek art evidence of a "globally connected" civilization dating back to GT?
Are the hands in medieval paintings evidence of a "globally connected" civilization dating back to the hands in cave paintings 40,000 years ago?
Or we could use form follows function to make equally absurd assertions. e.g. hammer stones look the same because they have the same function. Are hammer stones dating back millions of years in Africa and hammer stones dating to Neolithic times elsewhere evidence of a million year old "globally connected" civilization?
The reasonable answer to all of these questions is no.
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