The engraved ochre and ostrich eggshell fragments provide a unique window into early symbolic traditions of Homo sapiens and how they evolved over a period of more than 30,000 years.
On October 25, 1881, famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer was born. He is considered as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
The ancients to the early moderns appear never to have considered the 4 elements in the 3 dimensions in which matter in fact exists. Here, then, are the 4 elements arranged as the 4 points of the 1st Pythagorean solid, a tetrahedron.