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To: Smokin' Joe

Most books I've read on cave art always mention the perfectly preserved footprints left in the cave floor clay as being "small and feminine".
The prevailing theory [as of then, anyway] is that it was predominantly women and children visiting the areas that contain the art.

*shrug*

Who knows?
Maybe guys with tiny feet and hands?


[no Freudian or Jungian stuff about that, please]....LOL!

People break their backs trying to read *something deep* into everything when the possibility exists that then, as now, people created art simply because they were artists....:)



14 posted on 06/01/2006 10:04:18 AM PDT by Salamander (Cursed With Second Sight)
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To: Salamander
Maybe guys with tiny feet and hands?

Ummm...

[no Freudian or Jungian stuff about that, please]....LOL!

OK. shucks, that might have been fun

People break their backs trying to read *something deep* into everything when the possibility exists that then, as now, people created art simply because they were artists....:)

That is the truth! My wife paints, because she needs to. (She is pretty good, too, imo. )

16 posted on 06/01/2006 10:13:22 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Salamander
"Who knows? Maybe guys with tiny feet and hands?"

If there's a Tilt-A-Whirl nearby and the smell of cabbage in the air, then it's CARNEYS for sure! (Who's spreading the pixie dust and barking for the Yak Woman?)

(Neither Freud or Jung, just a sampling of those two psychoanalytical giants Mike Meyers and Randy Quaid.)
18 posted on 06/01/2006 3:02:58 PM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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