This time frame puts these paintings in the range of the Neanderthals.
1 posted on
10/03/2001 12:16:47 PM PDT by
blam
To: RightWhale;JudyB1938
FYI. Notice how everything that is 're-evaluated' turns out to always be older than previously stated.
2 posted on
10/03/2001 12:18:38 PM PDT by
blam
To: blam
But didn't Neaderthals coexist with Homo Sapiens? Could be by either of them.
To: blam
I heard they found a picture of ol' Strom in there.
4 posted on
10/03/2001 12:23:38 PM PDT by
SGCOS
To: blam
Even then, the froggish cro-mangons were surrender monkeys, but they did know how to paint! I wonder if they left any wine laying around aging in the cave....
5 posted on
10/03/2001 12:26:10 PM PDT by
Wm Bach
To: crevo_list
Bump.
8 posted on
10/03/2001 12:27:38 PM PDT by
Junior
To: blam
One of the really nifty tricks the artist(s) of Lasceaux employed was the use of simulcra in the rock to paint upon, bringing out even more the the natural formation's similarities to a horse, etc. and giving it a slightly 3-D effect, whose dancing shadows must have been quite startling when viewed in the flickering light of a hand held torch.
9 posted on
10/03/2001 12:32:26 PM PDT by
Wm Bach
To: LadyX.Snow Bunny,ofMagog,parsifal,Scuttlebutt, Fred Mertz, COB1,LadyX,Billie
Making to read and calling too.
To: blam
Sounds like they've "discovered" the basic limitations of radiocarbon dating...
22 posted on
10/03/2001 4:46:06 PM PDT by
medved
To: blam
Carbon isotope analysis of charcoal used in pictures of horses at Chauvet, south-central France, show that they are 30,000 years old, a discovery that should prompt a rethink about the development of art.So taking evolution into account, a horse 30,000 years ago would look like.....hey, a horse!
28 posted on
10/03/2001 8:16:13 PM PDT by
dubyagee
To: blam
Hey, I work for this guy!
(Sorry, don't know how to insert that picture again.)
Seriously, I sometime wonder about this cave art, or even the Indian petroglyphs we have here in Kansas. Did this really have some spritual significance, or is it more like the grafitti you see on a passing freight train?
46 posted on
10/04/2001 7:56:03 AM PDT by
G-Bear
To: blam
That's correct. The Neanderthals were around at the time. Problem is, how do we determine whether or not it was our ancestors or the Neanderthals that did this?
49 posted on
10/04/2001 8:06:14 AM PDT by
TKEman
To: blam
"According to Helene Valladas the research shows that ancient man was just as skilled at art as the humans who followed 13,000 years later." More skilled than some of the artists funded by the NEA.
50 posted on
10/04/2001 8:08:44 AM PDT by
Roscoe
To: blam
I bet there were a lot of pre-historic kids who got sent to time out for coloring on the living room walls.
To: blam
I love touring those caves. My favorite, I guess, is Rufignac because I enjoy taking the little train way into the cave, getting out once within and viewing the drawings from there.
If you ever get down to Les Eyzies, stay at the Hotel Cro Magnon and be sure to have at least one dinner there. (The Pigeon is great.) Book the annex. Fly into Bordeaux and drive from there. Great vacation.
90 posted on
10/05/2001 4:29:42 AM PDT by
DrCarl
To: blam
Actually, I'm a Time Lord and I painted them.
To: blam
An informative article, but I had to chuckle at the headline:
"...Cave Art Developed Early"
What? The French Impressionists weren't cave-dwellers? Nor the cubists or post-modernists? Andy Warhol lived in a house? (big grin)
To: Pharmboy; blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother
118 posted on
02/05/2006 8:14:29 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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