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1. Project Title (Avoid Acronyms Here) First Middle Last. First Middle Last, First Middle Last, and First Middle Last Department of Your Choice, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424 (IV) INTREPRETATION (III) RE-EVALUATION OF ICONS INTRODUCTION • Place your work in context here. This section should be designed to appeal to experts and non-experts alike. Perhaps you can facilitate reading your poster by providing some guides. • (I) Original cave artwork is evidence of higher civilization • (II) This was previously interpreted as • a. First recorded communication • b. First appearance of civilization • (III) Rethink the Icons • (IV) We discovered a new possible interpretation • (V) Future work • Evidence of culture and social community because… • Control of fire for useful purposes one of the earliest needs of organized society • Control of disease by cooking food sign of learned traits for species survival. • Use of tools to facilitate human work represents higher order thinking and analytical thought. • Use of refuse for productive purposes evidence of advanced planning • Use of waste as fuel source evidence of alleviation from cultural bias What if the language is not top to bottom, not left to right…. (I) ORIGINAL CAVE ART (V)FUTURE WORK Continue to examine art work for alternative interpretations Follow up on suggestion that art work might instead reveal evidence of early sense of humor Seek funding to support future investigations to look for similar art work in caves in hills near Napa Valley over the next several summers (IIa) EARLY COMMUICATION REFERENCES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (IIb) EVIDENCE OF CIVILIZATION *Previous Cave Art Interpretations: Ernest Already, I. M. Okay, Howard Ewe, J. Specious Interpretations, 1979, 17, 1316: DOI 10.114567.h4536/epoc.1979 We want to thank the College of Charleston URCA program (RPG and AYRA awards) and the Eryay Truth Foundation for funding this work.