Posted on 07/31/2008 8:26:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The painted caves of Lascaux in the Dordogne region of France are one of the most famed monuments of Ice Age art. Dating back about 17,000 years, the great Hall of the Bulls and its adjacent chambers proved so popular with visitors that a generation ago the cave had to be closed to save the paintings from encroaching mould. A replica, Lascaux II, was built nearby and has proved equally popular.
One thing that strikes the visitor is the exuberance of the compositions, with hundreds of animals, including bison, horses and deer, parading along the walls and ceilings, often overlapping. A big problem in sorting out possible groupings of animals, and possible motives for painting them, has been the issue of contemporaneity -- what was painted when?
...the presence of the antler, which seems from its scarcity in the paint samples to have been from a single short period of activity about 17,000 years ago, can be used an an indicator of a group of paintings that were created contemporaneously, and is thus "a tracer of a specific ornamentation phase of the cave", the team concludes. Similar discovery of unusual extraneous materials in other cave pigments might then enable different episodes in the creation of Lascaux's rich inventory of art to be teased out.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
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“We have discovered nothing”. - Pablo Picasso comparing modern art to the Lascaux caves
I know a few modern places that could be renamed The Hall Of The Bulls. . . .
ATTENTION FRENCH POLITICS AND CULTURE PING LIST :
Thanks to Sunken Civ, from the GGG (gods,graves and glyphs)PING LIST, for posting the picture of Lascaux and the article about the magnificent paintings in the caves at Lascaux, France.
I was privileged to visit the original when I was a student in Paris. It was a private tour for museum curators and students and it was mind blowing.
I’ll post this to the FRENCH POLITICS AND CULTURE PING LIST.
that's the bull that should be in front of the NY Stock Exchange...
very interesting.....
It must have been exciting to see it..
Thanks for posting
After I paid them enough money, they changed my DNA results from Neanderthal to basic Cro-Magnon. How much more does it cost to get into the cave painting elite?:D
And out of curiousity, how DO you pronounce that name? Specifically — the S — La’s’caux? I have always wondered...
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‘Lascaux’ is pronounced Lass ko, with a slight emphasis on the second syllable.The X is silent. Hope that helps.
So in other words, you're French...
68% of all Europeans are R1b...mine is the Denmark variety (DYS390-23).
It helps, thanks. I never could figure if the first ‘s’ was spoken or not. Forgot to ask the French teacher. By rules, it should be. And yet, you never know what the French drop, and why...
LOL...I was just kidding, but since we're being serious, I am ethnically a pure Slav.
I wants my reparations, too.
You're probably a yDNA haplogroup 'I' or R1a .
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