Posted on 08/01/2006 12:39:42 PM PDT by chichilarue
The suggestion that the artists who painted the Bradshaws were not the ancestors of the current aboriginal owners of the land has sparked consternation among the latter...Many aboriginal people also dislike the pictures, some referring to them as “rubbish art”, and for generations many have made efforts to paint over them or to obliterate them...
This is a treasure of which Australia should be very proud, yet when I went there this year I found people surprisingly reluctant to talk about it, almost as though they were ashamed. This may be understandable coming from the aborigines, who may be concerned that their own art is somehow diminished by Bradshaw art. I can understand that art experts and gallery owners, many of whom see the burgeoning market for aboriginal art as part of the last great artistic phenomenon of the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, may feel that Bradshaw art, which no one is painting any more, is irrelevant. Even scientists and historians, who will be made to look a bit silly if it is proved that they have been wrong for so long in maintaining that man only arrived in Australia with the first aborigines some 40,000 or 50,000 years ago, can be excused a certain reluctance to rewrite history. But I did find it strange how hostile both the media and the government seemed to be to the subject of Bradshaws. ***The Rothwell article was the only manifestation of what appears to be a conspiracy to play the whole story down, either from misguided embarrassment or political correctness.*** Advances in dating techniques will one day provide the truth, but meanwhile it is far too good a story to ignore. Above all, the art itself is delightful and should be known to a wider audience.
(Excerpt) Read more at tls.timesonline.co.uk ...
Bradshaw art
mmmmm, yes but there are other prettier ones, I just don't know how to post them.
Their quality is not the point.
I'm totally with you on the reasons behind the cover-up, but I was no aware of the Clovis/Solutrean thing, that's really amazing. There's no talk about it...and as for Kennewick man, that too, I didn't know enough about it so I didn't suspect sininster motives. My favorite argument is that of the Umatilla Indians who claim that their religious beliefs are that they have been on the land since the dawn of time, so if the govt. denies this, then it's discriminating against their religious belief, lol...I think they've been taking lessons from imams.
Both of these topics point to "others" being here before the Indians.
If We don't know, how would they? 'Since the beginning of time' is very vague to say the least.
ummm...if we don't know what?
Very odd. What basis is there for thinking these people were either little or gentle? Maybe they painted cute little pictures in between torture sessions.
Probably the same reason that archaeologists assumed the ancient Maya were peaceful ... until their writings were deciphered and it was learned they were about as bloodthirsty (literally!) as any people in history.
This is really not the point. The point is not about whether the pre-Aboriginals were advanced or not or nice or not, but why there's a cover-up of their existence.
Note: this topic is from 08/01/2006. Thanks chichilarue.
But you forget history: Jean Jaques Rousseau, the intellectual "father" of Communism, created the false concept of the Noble Savage. The notion that human beings are naturally gentle, peaceful and cooperative and that class distinctions, capitalism and other "evil" Enlightenment concepts created tragedies that only Communism can heal, is fundamental to the Progressive mind. It's total BS but it's simple-minded enough for the masses to swallow whole. The lie must be maintained.
I am on vacation and borrowing a PC. Look up Cow Marsh, Australia, people. Or maybe Kow. Remains about 12,000 years old, but pre homo sapien. Maybe Aborigenal guilt for killing their predecesors. Goodby till I get home.
I didn’t get any search hits that were relevant, probably best if you try it.
Thanks!
The Bradshaw paintings are in the South-West Kimberley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kow_Swamp_Archaeological_Site
The Kow Swamp archaeological site comprises a series of late Pleistocene burials within the lunette of the eastern rim of a former lake known as Kow Swamp. The site is located 10 km south-east of Cohuna in the central Murray River valley, in northern Victoria, at
35.953553°S 144.318123°E. The site is significant for archaeological excavations by Alan Thorne between 1968 and 1972 which recovered the partial skeletal remains of more than 22 individuals.[1]
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