![]() In and around your cave paintings are handprints and dots, x's and triangles, parallel lines and spirals. But you also belong to a rich culture that creates art. In reality, you live in an open-air tent or a bone hut. The time: 25,000 years ago, the last Ice Age. "One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language. Seeing the unseen world: visions, shamans, and the Seven Signs Through the eyes of the ancestors: a rock art epiphanyįeather or weapon: the real-world meanings of cave signs Germain-la-Rivière and her mysterious necklace Patterns: trading signs and sharing symbolsĬhicken or egg: a brief history of language, brains, and writing Of animals and humans and strange tableaux Signs across the ages: the many styles of the oldest art Venuses, lion-men, and signs beyond the mundane world Includes bibliographical references (pages -286) and index. ![]() ![]() The first signs : unlocking the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols / Genevieve von Petzinger. Request This Author Von Petzinger, Genevieve. ![]()
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