Posted on 11/13/2009 6:01:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Images pecked in stone hundreds to thousands of years ago could be for religious reasons, to mark territories or simple doodles such as those still made today by children and adults.
That is according to Dr. Ekkehart Malotki, a preeminent researcher into the history of rock art.
"Creating art is a distinct piece of our biological make-up," he told about 50 people Saturday during his lecture at Deer Valley Rock Art Center. "It is an instinct."
Malotki, a professor emeritus of languages at Northern Arizona University, said no one would ever know the true meaning of images pecked or painted on stone pallets because the artists are dead and did not leave a record or "Rosetta Stone" to decipher the images' meanings.
The oldest known rock art is a 300,000-year-old panel of small chipped cups, called cupules, found in India. He believes that the images of animals and people evolved from early artists' doodles.
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Ellen Dissanayake is currently an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. She synthesizes a wide variety of approaches—from neuroscience and ethology, physical and cultural anthropology, and developmental and cognitive psychology—to support her claim that the arts, including music, evolved to be an inherent part of human nature...blah blah blah...
shes a little old for bangs.
Do you ever despair of the willful ignorance of certain anti-intellectuals who crawled under the conservative tent flap?
Nonsense! Laz would bang her...
Clintoon too.
Dot/cuppule. Series of dots. Line: straight, wavy, zig-zagged, or curved: simple curve/arc, open or closed; spiral. Series of lines: parallel, non-parallel, crossing; joined free-form or as a regular/irregular polygon....
Only a finite number of figures that can be formed, no matter where in the world the rock art is created.
Combine that with with evolutionary psychologist Ellen Dissanayake and you get
Malotki, a professor emeritus of languages at Northern Arizona University, said no one would ever know the true meaning of images pecked or painted on stone pallets because the artists are dead and did not leave a record or "Rosetta Stone" to decipher the images' meanings.
Translated as, I am Dr. Ekkehart Malotki, a preeminent researcher into the history of rock art, and if I don't know the meaning, no one ever will.
The cups in the granite boulders near my house often have empty acorn shells in them.
Obviously, these were the work of squirrels.
Why does everything have to be analysed to death? The early humans were just that—human. A few of them appreciated the way things looked, or wanted to better understand how something looked, so they drew a picture of it. They were artists. Historians, anthropologists, psychologists and archeologists will apparently never understand this simplest and most basic of human instincts: the urge to create.
And she says, the doodles are nothing but Jungian Archetypes hardwired into the psyche, nothing to see here...
They have both reached a dead end. They will never make the connection between what it is (for example)these symbols are trying to tell us:
Pictish Stone.
Or that a spiral symbol records a celestial phenomenon, seen worldwide:
Don't show this to Richard Hoagland!
He'll claim that the "face" of 'George Washington' in the center of the right hand set of circles is a duplicate of the Face On mars, and is further 'proof' of his Cydonian theories.
(You may have to tilt your head to the left, close one eye, and squint the other one a bit to see it...BUT IT'S THERE!)
They haven't asked Helen Thomas?
You’re overanalyzing this. ;’)
I’m gettin’ out now, before someone posts the pic.
Thanks!
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