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Strings From Prehistory

The works of the artists of the caves include the code, the universal message that still allows us to describe the reality: the universe is binary.
The pairs of opposites represented by horse and bison, male and female signs found in the caves, are just the beginning of the story of how we think about the world as dominated by opposite forces. It is this history that led Homo sapiens from Prehistory to the strings of 0 and 1 of the computer languages.

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"Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns to paint amazing images of animals?"

Amir Aczel, The Cave and The Cathedral, Wiley, 2009.

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Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology.

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