![]() 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. Seeing the unseen world : visions, shamans, and the seven signs.Feather or weapon : the real-world meanings of cave signs.Through the eyes of the ancestors : a rock art epiphany.Germain-la-Rivière and her mysterious necklace Chicken or egg : a brief history of language, brains, and writing.Patterns : trading signs and sharing symbols.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. ![]() Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index. ![]()
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