and Symbols


byGenevieve Von Petzinger,


Emerging Explorer National Geographic


In 1940, a French teenager found a cave in Lascaux,


France. Inside, the walls were covered with ancient art. T ere were more than 2,000 images, all made during the last


From the book THE FIRST SIGNS: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols by Genevieve von Petzinger. Copyright © 2016 by Genevieve von Petzinger. Reprinted by permission of Atria Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.


ice age, some 40,000 years ago. Many of them show animals or people. But hundreds of images show something else—symbols. T ese symbols have been largely ignored by scholars. And yet, these are what interest me most.


ADVENTURER 17


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