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Copper is from ME coper , OE coper/copor , Proto-Germanic * kupar , and is called cuprum in Late Latin; both Proto-Germanic and Late Latin forms are from Latin Cyprium , the adjective for Cyprus , whence the best copper came in antiquity, which goes back to the Greeks, who called it kupros .
Ethnographers link them with the Cro-Magnon and Proto-Mediterranean race.
Apart from some pre-Ice Age hominids, the first settlers to arrive in India were Negritos and Proto-Australoids.
Burton's imagery has an ecstatic intensity; it's too bad that the movie--loosely based on the Irving classic about a ghost who haunts New York's Hudson Valley in the decades after the American Revolution--has been constructed as a sort of proto- Hound of the Baskervilles . In the screenplay, credited to Andrew Kevin Walker ( Seven , 1995) but reportedly rewritten by Tom Stoppard, the schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is now a New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who travels upstate to solve a series of beheadings using the fledgling sciences of pathology and deduction.
After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.
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