Professor von Petzinger is doing rock art research but her motif is not likely the same as you may imagine. Hers is on the walls of caves.
If you're willin', she will go deep diving with language even before the thinking of Noam Chomsky since she seeks the primitives (i.e. signs in caves as with prims in a virtual world such as Second Life). The prims are used to build things and language comes. In Second Life, there's no telling what prims may build.
Prof von Petzinger speaks for TED so this isn't the latest spiel about UFOs or some such.
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in. Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger has studied and codified these ancient markings in caves across Europe. The uniformity of her findings suggest that graphic communication, and the ability to preserve and transmit messages beyond a single moment in time, may be much older than we think.
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Prof von Petzinger doesn't just give speeches since she's been crawling through those caves with her husband who was the research team photographer. Hear the conditions she describes and she's no sissy girl; she's the finest kind.
My ol' Dad saw the cave paintings in Altamira and practically wept. I don't think they will let anyone but researchers in there now because the humidity from tourists was killing the rock art.
If you're willin', she will go deep diving with language even before the thinking of Noam Chomsky since she seeks the primitives (i.e. signs in caves as with prims in a virtual world such as Second Life). The prims are used to build things and language comes. In Second Life, there's no telling what prims may build.
Prof von Petzinger speaks for TED so this isn't the latest spiel about UFOs or some such.
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in. Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher Genevieve von Petzinger has studied and codified these ancient markings in caves across Europe. The uniformity of her findings suggest that graphic communication, and the ability to preserve and transmit messages beyond a single moment in time, may be much older than we think.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate
Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews
Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED
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Prof von Petzinger doesn't just give speeches since she's been crawling through those caves with her husband who was the research team photographer. Hear the conditions she describes and she's no sissy girl; she's the finest kind.
My ol' Dad saw the cave paintings in Altamira and practically wept. I don't think they will let anyone but researchers in there now because the humidity from tourists was killing the rock art.
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