It's easier to explain what I didn't mean: the cave paintings themselves contain (AFAIK) no secret poems in cipher. (That probably won't stop anyone from looking.)
So, any 30-millennia-old tribal epics are as extinct as the cave bear. But, to me and probably other fellow poets, the very idea that such works may have existed once excites the imagination, bolsters a sense of mission and provides a connection to prehistoric antiquity and perhaps the essence of humanity itself.
In other words: "Cool!"
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