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There are pirate groups which use skull and crossbones as a symbol that valuable things are located there. Iconography across cultures is a fractally hard prob
by Godel_unicode 7y ago
There are pirate groups which use skull and crossbones as a symbol that valuable things are located there.
Iconography across cultures is a fractally hard problem, as you just demonstrated.
- EpicEng 7y agoYes, I'm sure that when people run across these[1] they're going to think "pirate booty!" [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol
- rtkwe 7y agoThe problem is over 10k years and with the idea of a civilization collapse being part of your in scope posisble events you can assume nothing about the cultural link between us and them. That symbol means danger to us because it's been the sign for danger for a long time, subtract that and it could be markers for graves maybe a good place to look for resources or treasure like has been done to so many ancient tombs.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThey might think "sweet, an old graveyard, wonder if they buried their dead with valuables" though.