Dr. James Fitzsimmons
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He basically comes up with a couple of words, and he links them to glyphs.
And it links them to pictures, actually.
He looks at a picture.
I forget what the animal is, but he looks at a picture.
He looks at something next to it.
He reasons that it's a caption and decides, oh, I've got a caption here.
And he kind of goes through it.
And because it's the Cold War, people in the West don't want to accept that this is real.
And so the scholarship gets held back.
And it gets held back for whatever it is, a couple of decades.
It gets held back.
And then things thaw in the 70s.
And all of a sudden, this comes out.
And people are like, oh.
And people build on this and build on it and build on it.
And so one of the more ironic things is that there's a Russian American named Tatyana Proskriakov.
who was also a chain smoker.