Later Acheulian Marking Motifs II - Other Sites / b)kand

To illuminate the expressive nature of cupule and undulating line motifs and their pairing, I suggest turning to a writing by the painter and theorist of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky (1979), which happens to be on the very subject of these two shapes, Point and line to plane. For a detailed analysis of this interpretation, see Harrod, J. B. (2003) Deciphering Early Paleolithic Graphemes (EPmrk), posted on this website.

Illustration © Kandinsky, W. (1979). Point and line to plane. New York: Dover. Figure 2.