Early humans living in Europe some 40,000 years ago developed a conventional system of geometric signs -- deliberate, repeatable markings that went beyond decoration and hint at an early form of structured communication.
i believe that “song for route-finding” was the basis for extra-tribal shared language, and that the symbols made would have been for mapping out the area like an extension of pissing on something to mark it
i believe that “song for route-finding” was the basis for extra-tribal shared language, and that the symbols made would have been for mapping out the area like an extension of pissing on something to mark it