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Published online 6 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/454679f
Rock art carves itself a niche online
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A number of years ago, after reading my first Graham Hancock book, I found a website by a man in one of the countries emerging from the Soviet Union (sorry to be so vague but my geography is dreadful) who had a theory that similar circular carvings and drawings in his area were actually a form of writing. I'm no expert, but don't similar spirals seem to be carved and drawn all across Europe and even farther? It just seems logical that they communicated some kind of information, particularly in light of how much time and effort it would take to create these carvings.