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Letter: Handy guidance on ritual meanings in cave art (1)

Published 2 January 2019

From Ruth Ridley, Seaford, East Sussex, UK

I was interested by your article on finger sacrifice possibly depicted in cave art (8 December 2018, p 16). Might this art be a form of prayer? Today we sometimes say “I'd give my right arm” for something, but we don't actually remove it. Perhaps this art was a plea to the gods for something of importance to the person that made it.

Issue no. 3211 published 5 January 2019

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