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Letter: Mystery and explanation of ancient glyphs

Published 4 January 2017

From Simon Tanlaw, London, UK

Genevieve von Petzinger's work on cave art and the mysterious pictographs covered in your article is incredible (12 November 2016, p 36). It raises the question: how did our ancestors manage to standardise detailed pictographs around the globe 30,000 years ago, without any known method of long-distance communication apart from the canoe?

Issue no. 3107 published 7 January 2017

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