Symbol origins?

Talking about most ancient symbols in general, some would say one of the following:

1. The swastika
2. The sun wheel
3. The hey bundle and hammer
4. The Egyptian Ankh
5. The snake coiled around a stick (current medical symbol) derived from the staff the Egyptian God, Tuth, (God of knowledge and medicine) used to hold.
6. The cross (with equal sides)

The list goes on and on.

However, I believe all arguments are wrong, because all these symbols are Sumerians (depicted on the Sumerian clay taplets). Therefore, my argument goes as follows:

Until a few decades ago, every body was under the wrong impression that the Ancient Egyptian civilization was the oldest until the Sumerian's was excavated later.

"Every thing came from Sumer", so say the archeologists. In this case, if all the above symbols came from Sumer (and they did), how can we decide that a particular symbol is more ancient than the other. I have not come across a study that determined this particular issue yet

As for the most ancient ownership symbol, in particular, I regret to say I have no answer

Thank you

I think the most of the earlier person that dont have words as nowadays as to communicate so they use the ancient symbols

Sunwheel: due to an evil maniac who lived over half a century ago many people still associate this symbol with evil and bloodshed, the Sunwheel, also known as the Fylfot ("much-feet") was a holy symbol to most of the ancient cultures, it represented the sun and human ownership and it was originally a symbol of goodness and life. (its other name;"Swastika" is Sanskrit for "Good Fortune")
In the Germanic religion the Sunwheel also represented power and lightning.
The Swastika is one of the oldest holy symbols known in the world; it was used by the ancient civilizations of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Northern Africa, and even in the America's, in the ancient world the Swastika was to most religions what the Cross is to Christianity or the Half Moon to Islam.
It was related to the Suncross and there were also combinations of them both, in Germanic religion the symbol was linked to the god Thunar and the Celts associated it with Taranis; the Celtic god of Thunder, it was also holy to the Indians, the Chinese, the Native Americans, and the Slavs, and it is still holy to the Hinduistic religion today.
There were also Sunwheels with 6 or 8 feet, and sometimes dots were included in the symbol, which probably represented stars.

Unfortunately this symbol (which is one of the oldest in the world) has been abused by the nazi's in WW2, which contaminated this symbol forever; in most modern countries it is forbidden to use this symbol and a lot of Hinduists and other people to whom the symbol is holy are trying to rehabilitate it, though I doubt it will ever be lifted of its stigma.




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http://www.collectorsguide.com/fa/fa086.shtml

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