![]() ![]() Instead, she’s obsessed with the abstract geometric images that accompany them, the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures-signs that have never really been studied or explained until now. Von Petzinger looks past the beautiful horses, powerful bison, graceful ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings. Join renowned archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger on an Indiana Jones-worthy adventure from the open-air rock art sites of northern Portugal to the dark depths of a remote cave in Spain that can only be reached by sliding face-first through the mud. ![]() And then you vanish-and with you, their meanings. 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. ![]()
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