Welcome!
All those who are interested, curious, and also those whom a kind fate has brought here by chance ̶ welcome to my website dedicated to the decipherment of Ice Age cave paintings!
Deciphering means a text with unknown characters becomes legible because the characters can be assigned to sounds, syllables or words, and these words can ultimately be assigned to a language. This is what happened, for example, with the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, the Maya and cuneiform script.
When the term deciphering is used here in connection with cave paintings by Ice Age people, it gives the impression that these images are a kind of writing, decipherable and readable.
That is precisely my opinion and my intention.
The pictographic writing of the Ice Age consists of animal images, geometric symbols and human body parts.
Its theme is the world view of Ice Age humans, their religion and their science, inextricably interwoven.
On the following pages, I would like to show you how this writing can be read and how I have deciphered it, at least in part.
This is presented in more detail in my book "Ein neuer Blick auf alte Bilder - Die Entzifferung der Eiszeitkunst” (A New Look at Old Images - Deciphering Ice Age Cave Art), which this internet article is of course also intended to promote. But some things can be shown better on a computer screen than in a book, and therefore this article can also be seen as a supplement to the book.
Last but not least, I would be delighted if I could inspire your admiration for the skills and achievements of our distant ancestors, for the beauty of their images and the invention of the sewing needle, unchanged in form and function for 25,000 years.
Images:
Needle in 3 views: From the Badegoule cave; Photo: Don Hitchcock; Musée d'Archeologie Nationale et Domaine, St-Germain-en-Laye
Horse's head, relief from Roc-aux-Sorciers; © RMN - Grand Palais (musée d'Archéologie nationale) / Photo: Claire Artemyz
Lions: Image from the Chauvet Cave, display in the Museum of Angles-sur-l'Anglin; Photo: Harald Ulrich
4 needles: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Archéologie nationale) / Photo: Thierry Ollivier
Horse: From Lourdes; © RMN - Grand Palais (Musée d'Archéologie Nationale) / Photo: Loïc Hamon
Bison head: Relief from Roc-aux-Sorciers; Photo: Don Hitchcock, www.donsmaps.com
Spearhead: © Saarland Monument Authority; photo: Harald Ulrich
