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In France's Gargas cave, a late Paleolithic left-hand stencil glows green from a night vision camera. Archaeologist Dean Snow concluded the hand was female.
To: JoeProBono
Dammit. I was hoping for hot prehistoric cave chick pictures.
2 posted on
06/30/2009 7:36:37 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: JoeProBono
3 posted on
06/30/2009 7:36:43 AM PDT by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: JoeProBono
What evidence is there that the palm printers were also the artists? Maybe they were the virgin sacrifices.
5 posted on
06/30/2009 7:37:27 AM PDT by
DManA
To: JoeProBono
I am sure we will soon also be told they were also Lesbians, working on gender-equality and social justice issues for the community of women....
6 posted on
06/30/2009 7:37:31 AM PDT by
PGR88
To: JoeProBono
Yup...and,next,we’ll learn that they were lesbians.
To: JoeProBono
They probably had the guys go in a clear out all the critters first.
10 posted on
06/30/2009 7:41:35 AM PDT by
blam
To: JoeProBono
What is it with chick and horses?
12 posted on
06/30/2009 7:42:05 AM PDT by
D Rider
To: JoeProBono
13 posted on
06/30/2009 7:45:16 AM PDT by
Costumed Vigilante
(Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
To: JoeProBono
Looks to me like they had spray paint.
14 posted on
06/30/2009 7:46:46 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: JoeProBono
Helen Thomas can confirm this...
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16 posted on
06/30/2009 7:47:02 AM PDT by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: JoeProBono
Heh... I’m suddenly reminded of the “first art critic” scene in “History of the World - Part I”. :-)
18 posted on
06/30/2009 7:49:10 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
("Endeavor to persevere...")
To: JoeProBono
22 posted on
06/30/2009 8:10:51 AM PDT by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: JoeProBono
Women and horses, eh? Seems the cave walls were for porn too.
31 posted on
11/08/2011 7:29:13 PM PST by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: JoeProBono
Maybe the prints were inspection stamps rather than the signatures of the artists.
32 posted on
11/09/2011 4:50:42 AM PST by
Bigg Red
(Maryland girl, born and bred)
To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv
Under the night vision light, it is clear that the handprint was from someone using ‘Cave Gray” fingernail polish.
How could brilliant anthropologists have missed this all these years?
34 posted on
11/09/2011 7:03:45 AM PST by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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