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“So that leads back to the tribe’s pictographs, where we have beavers.”

About 60 percent include important historical sites like battlefields, memorials, and historical homes, as well as the continent's prehistory: ancient dwellings, petroglyphs, and pictographs from earlier cultures.

Haring made uninflected linear drawings almost exclusively glyphs and pictographs, like Paleolithic cave art with an agitated urban edge.

As they scrutinize the material, they notice everywhere a curious abbreviation, JoR, along with complex configurations of geometric shapes and cryptic pictographs.

They look like enigmatic maps, with floating pictographs and tracks — Smith’s response to professors who emphasized abstraction.