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"Fascin ating."
Louise Ia•akcy, paleontologist
exceptional read.
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If mysteries, love this book."
— Morell, author of Animal Jl"isr and Ancestral
Join mnowned am-haeologist Genevieve son Pewinger on an IndianaJoncs -worthy adven-
as she goes fmm the hauntingly beautiful exposed rock art sites of northern Portugal
to the dark depths of a remote in Spain to eerie French c:nerns with affhcs and pas-
sagcways covered in pm•historic painted patterns. Petzingcr looks beyond exquisite
animals in the ancient paintings to investigate the abstract geometric images that accompany
them. These thirty-two symbols among the first indications of our human ancestors' intel-
ligence and capacity for symbolic meaning and language, appear mom Often than any other
kind Of They studied or explained - until now
Part narrative adventure, part popular science, von Petzingcr'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 Park during World
War II, The First Sign' glimpses across millennia of an ancient consciousness linked to
Our own —and a hint Of when our Age ancestors 'IS.
Genevieve von Petzinger is one of National Geographic's Emerging
Explorer.. and her work has appeatw•d in numerous Plint, radio, television,
and web-based features, including popular scienc' magazine' such as
She a TED Global Fellow and Senior and her 2015
TED Talk "Why Are These Thirty•Two Symbols Found in Ancient Caws
Over Europe?" has morr than 2.25 milliO!I vines.
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