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Ladataan... The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols (2016)Tekijä: Genevieve Von Petzinger
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This is very good, and the focus of the book is truly exciting work. Von Petzinger is paying needed attention to aspects of Paleolithic art that have curiously escaped a ton of notice, and that's amazing. On the downside she doesn't really get to that focus until fairly late in the book: the first chapters are an introduction to rock/cave art, and also a bit of a personal account of how she (along with her photographer partner/husband) became acquainted with this art & the difficulties of accessing it (no fault of the author, but her discussions of the creepiness and discomfort of these underground spaces didn't hit me -- I'm a caver -- like they'll probably hit a typical reader). If I recall correctly, discussion of the signs apart from the depictions of animals, etc. doesn't really start until Chapter 11 ... and the work is in its early stages, so in a very real way this book is like an initial report rather than a full study. But ... wow. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"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. Imagine yourself as a caveman or woman. The place: Europe. The time: 25,000 years ago, the last Ice Age. In reality, you live in an open-air tent or a bone hut. But you also belong to a rich culture that creates art. In and around your cave paintings are handprints and dots, x's and triangles, parallel lines and spirals. Your people know what they mean. You also use them on tools and jewelry. And then you vanish--and with you, their meanings. 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. Von Petzinger looks past the beautiful horses, powerful bison, graceful ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings. 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. Part travel journal, part popular science, part personal narrative, Von Petzinger's groundbreaking book starts to crack the code on the first form of graphic communication. It's in her blood, as this talented scientist's grandmother served as a code-breaker at Bletchley. Discernible patterns emerge that point to abstract thought and expression, and for the first time, we can begin to understand the changes that might have been happening inside the minds of our Ice Age ancestors--offering a glimpse of when they became us"--
"Archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger looks past the horses, bison, ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings and instead focuses on the abstract geometric images that accompany them. She offers her research on the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures--signs that have never really been studied or explained until now"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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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. ( )