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Re:Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery by hoseja on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:21AM (#34259880)
Hm, I see no discussion about left-to-right vs right-to-left positioning of the ordinal Y in the (horizontal) sequences. Is left-to-right taken for granted?
Re:Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery by s1artibartfast on Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:11PM (#34262978)
Doesn't look like it. if you have a hypothesis, write it up and publish it
Re:Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery by yodon on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:00PM (#34266486)
Hopefully someone else can find more context in the paper on left-to-right vs right-to-left sequencing (or animal-facing-direction or towards-the-head(?)-of-the-animal or ? sequencing).

The most relevant quote in the paper I could find is

>Figure 4 presents the position of <Y> in sequences, by analytical taxa. To determine the position of <Y>, we assumed that sequences were oriented in the same way as their associated animal depictions, i.e. with the animal the right way up.

But I don't see how to get a directionality from that quote.