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==History==
==History==
It is not known when the first cross image was made; after [[circles]], crosses are one of the first [[symbols]] drawn by [[children]] of all [[cultures]]. There are many cross-shaped incisions in European [[cult]] [[caves]], dating back to the earliest [[stages]] of human cultural [[development]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_age stone age]. Like other [[symbols]] from this period, their use continued in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples Germanic] cultures in Europe. For example, celtic coins minted many centuries before the [[Christian]] era may have an entire side showing this type of cross, sometimes with the cardinal points marked by [[concave]] depressions in the same style as in stone age carvings. Other coins may be showing the cross held by a rider on a horse and springing a fern leaf, sometimes identified as a [[Tree of Life]] [[symbol]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross]
It is not known when the first cross image was made; after [[circles]], crosses are one of the first [[symbols]] drawn by [[children]] of all [[cultures]]. There are many cross-shaped incisions in European [[cult]] [[caves]], dating back to the earliest [[stages]] of human cultural [[development]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_age stone age]. Like other [[symbols]] from this period, their use continued in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt Celtic] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples Germanic] cultures in Europe. For example, celtic coins minted many centuries before the [[Christian]] era may have an entire side showing this type of cross, sometimes with the cardinal points marked by [[concave]] depressions in the same style as in stone age carvings. Other coins may be showing the cross held by a rider on a horse and springing a fern leaf, sometimes identified as a [[Tree of Life]] [[symbol]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross]
==See also==
*'''''[[Crucifixion]]'''''
[[Category: Religion]]
[[Category: Religion]]
[[Category: Anthropology]]
[[Category: Anthropology]]