Genevieve Von Petzinger
Autor von The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
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- University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Ph.D.)
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- Paleoanthropologist
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As far as the thesis of the book, the author uses her database of geometric cave signs (the signs that do not clearly represent things like animals) to evaluate whether they have deeper meaning or connections. She groups these signs into 32 categories and then looks at the distribution of signs within these categories across sites.
While a handful of the categories are stylistically unique enough to justify this exercise, most are things like lines, dots, triangles, circles, squiggly lines, zig-zag lines, open angles, half-circles, rectangles, ovals, 'x's, hatch patterns, etc... Arguing that the presence of such signs across Europe or Africa is evidence of anything beyond those being the most simple and obvious two-dimensional geometric shapes that can be drawn is dubious.… (mehr)