He didn't think the markings were indicative of a game or a numerical count but of a lunar calendar, and he proved it. In doing so, he proved that man was cognitive in very sophisticated ways before the time anyone else thought it was possible. He also is famous for analyzing images in Paleolithic cave paintings. The book was written while Mr. Marshack was a Research Fellow of The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Many artists related to his work and contacted him.
Artists often suffer form a similar form of infantilization and a re quite misunderstood.
I am so moved by Mr. Marshack's writings, I write a poem and send it to him. Years would pass and we would return to renew the process over and over again amazed each time to find how we had grown into it and how it could grow to accommodate us. We had dreams . . Always remember, our ashes are your seeds. A voluptuous blossoming this is our art.