Cave Visual Symbols

Today, I read in the newspaper about how the cave drawings and carvings were not just representations of real things the communicators had seen, but were also symbols that represented a certain meaning to that community of people.

I had always believed that visual language began when God made us and that humans used visuals to communicate, before the birth of letters and numerals. The fact that these visual languages had transcended time, community and language is a real fact for us to consider. These drawings even today, communicate to us to a large extent!

So I began to check the many ways, our ancestors had tried to communicate – and my findings were astonishing.  (Though I openly disagree on the millions of years, because I believe we are in a young earth just a few thousands of years old – http://www.answersingenesis.org/  )

“In 1853 George Tate read a paper to the Berwick Naturalists’ Club at which a Mr John Collingwood Bruce agreed that the carvings had ‘.. a common origin, and indicate a symbolic meaning, representing some popular thought.”  http://www.crystalinks.com/petroglyphs.html

Just look at these symbols and drawings and check for yourself – the power in communicating visually!

http://donsmaps.com/cavepaintings.html

http://www.crystalinks.com/petroglyphs.html