Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger

And even within these groups, that there's a lot of variety and that maybe we just haven't had the tools before to see it.

But I think we might be starting to now.

So I think stay tuned.

It's an exciting time.

Yeah, well, I mean, I think so.

I think that this is where...

I mean, I'm so sorry to disappoint everyone.

I don't think we'll ever be able to like decode it, right?

Like, so it's just that for one thing, we don't have enough repetition and examples.

Like usually you would need something with more, like if you think about what they were able to do with hieroglyphs or something like that, it's a very big set of symbols, which is repeatedly used across time so that you can get patterns of use from them, right?

And then you can start to figure out, oh, these things usually are this, these things usually do that.

They don't seem to be using their graphic marks quite that regularly and in quite a standardized way yet.

But again, so it's probably more that what they were doing was that there was important things to them that they were marking, right?

Like they were making marks in order to send

you know, information or messages about things that were important to them.

And that information could have been, this is my piece of Oak or don't touch it.

Right.

Or this is the clan of the bison's cave.

Right.

Like for real, like that could be stuff like that.