Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger

There's other examples where it could be path markers and caves.

Like,

take this passageway, bad cave bear lives down there.

There really are examples of what look like path markers, too.

So there's a huge variety of things.

What I would say, though, is that I do believe that a lot of these geometric marks, certainly with the humans, could be actually figurative things that we just haven't quite identified what they are.

Because if we're looking at some of the geometric marks, they look like stylized real-world things.

So I think on some level, certainly with the human stuff, because they were making figurative art that looked like, that was meant to replicate real world items, I think we could probably at least get to a point in maybe figuring out some of what they were depicting.

Like, what is this thing, right?

Like, oh, maybe this is an arrow or a spear, or that doesn't mean we can understand what it means, right?

Because if you think about it, like if you think about like a Christian cross,

If you are part of a group of people who understands what a Christian cross is, that tiny symbol...

Think about the folders it unlocks in your brain, right?

It unlocks 2,000 years of history.

It unlocks the Crusades.

It unlocks the churches and the Reformation and the printing press.

Like, boom, right?

That's all this is.

And yet, it's like... So, I mean, I think I was thinking about it the other day, which is, I mean, language is one of the most compressed algorithms that's ever been invented, right?

And so this is where...