Jurassic Farm: Can we bring prehistoric bovines back from extinction?

modernfarmer.com ^ | September 10, 2014 | By Kristan Lawson

[gleeaikin]

That is one of the more likely clone possibilities.

[gleeaikin]

That is one of the more likely clone possibilities.

[1010RD]

Imagine that we restore these animals. Would the Greens demand we release them into our national parks? What about pre-historic predators? It gets crazy pretty fast, but that’s liberalism.

[1010RD]

Sounds like bad cooking. I’ve had it and it’s delicious.

[Red Badger]

Yes, it is a mammal. And a nasty one, at that..............

[Red Badger]

The ACTUAL cave drawings are sealed off from public view. They are recreated in a separate cave area where tourists can take pictures and gawk to their hearts content.
When they were first discovered in 1940, by some teens exploring, they became an instant attraction. But they soon began to deteriorate because of the increase in humidity and introduction of fungi and lichen from tourists tramping into the caves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

[Red Badger]

Back to the Future Burgers!
Kids meal comes with a flux capacitor or a DeLorean model...............

[trisham]

They’re incredibly beautiful and appear to be modern, almost abstract paintings. It would be a terrible shame if they were lost.

Thanks for the link, Red Badger.

[Red Badger]

I have always thought it odd that they painted the animals in almost picture-perfect detail, yet the did not paint humans at all. Whenever a human is depicted, it is usually a stick-figure or figures surrounding the animals.

I have a theory:
The paintings were not done by men, but by women.
The paintings of the animals are a ‘shopping list’.

The stick figures are equivalent to a football coach’s X’s and O’s diagrams for different plays for the field. IOW, “This is how YOU will kill the buffalo.”

Cave woman:
“Now, go out and bring back a buffalo for dinner!”..............

[trisham]

LOL! Good theory. :)

[Red Badger]

Think about it.

Who would have the most time on their hands to do cave painting (decoration)?

Who would have the time to find ochre and charcoal and other color paints and make brushes?

Unless they were done by gay cave men interior decorators, the cave women would have been the only ones to do this.

I cannot believe that cave men sat around deciding what color to use on the next rock wall.....................

[trisham]

They’d have time during the winter months, perhaps? Probably not. Hunting and hunting related activities would take a lot of time, even more so in winter months.

[gleeaikin]

Try spelt. Also you can boil whole grains of wheat and eat them. Chewy and full of fiber

[gleeaikin]

Actually, in these societies the women have more work, grinding grains, preparing acorns, curing and preparing skins, cooking, making carrying and storage containers, caring for children. The men hunt, bring home something big, sit around flaking arrows and telling war stories. Maybe they were gay artists. Some American tribes had “berdach” (sp?), men of two natures that were often more artistic or spiritual.

[colorado tanker]

I read somewhere that Aurochs were pretty ornery and a challenge to hunt. Not sure we really want to bring them back and let them roam.

[Red Badger]

Aurochs V2.0...............New and improved........

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 2014, just an update with additional topics.

Thanks .

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