The first signs unlocking the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols
"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, i...
| Main Author: | Von Petzinger, Genevieve (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Atria books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Two red dots
- Once upon a time in Africa...
- Glimmers of a modern mind
- Intermittent signals
- Welcome to the Ice Age
- Venuses, lion-men, and signs beyond the mundane world
- Life and death in the first villages
- How to make cave art
- Signs across the ages: the many styles of the oldest art
- Of animals and humans and strange tableaux
- Patterns: trading signs and sharing symbols
- Chicken or egg: a brief history of language, brains, and writing
- The lady of St. Germain-la-RivieĢre and her mysterious necklace
- Through the eyes of the ancestors: a rock art epiphany
- Feather or weapon: the real-world meanings of cave signs
- Seeing the unseen world: visions, shamans, and the seven signs.