Unlike a lot of archaeological data, which is sometimes buried or in ruins, rock art is found exactly where its makers intended it to be, often in spectacular locations, allowing us to view it in the same context as the artist who produced it. Rock art - ancient or more recent images drawn, painted, or carved onto rock surfaces in caves and elsewhere - has an exciting immediacy for those who view and study it. He nonetheless admires and recommends The First Signs by TED talker Genevieve von Petzinger’s as “a ‘go to’ book for the initiate looking for a sense of European Ice Age rock art studies” - Ed. Reviewer Chris Arnett, an expert in the indigenous rock art of the Nlaka’pamux and Salish territories of B.C., counters that the geometric images found in cave art express not a shared symbolic system but the common tactile and physical qualities of rock surfaces. To her, the discernible patterns reveal abstract thought and expression. In The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols, Genevieve von Petzinger explores the geometric images found in European cave art, shapes such as dots, x’s, triangles, parallel lines, and spirals. The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols
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