Posted on 11/01/2010 10:04:51 AM PDT by Cardhu
New Kerala
A new research has revealed that our ancestors from 5,000 years ago painted their homes to brighten up their places too.
They used red, yellow and orange pigments from ground-up minerals and bound it with animal fat and eggs to make their paint, the new study from a Stone Age settlement on the island of Orkney revealed.
Several stones used to form the buildings painted and decorated by the locals in about 3,000 BC, most probably to to enhance important buildings and may have been found in entranceways or areas of the building, which had particular significance.
"We have found seven stones in this ritual centre. Some of them were covered in paint and others appear to have had designs such as chevrons and zig zags painted on," The Daily Mail quoted Nick Card, of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, as saying.
"Paint pots have been found at various other sites before but we assumed this was for personal adornment. But we now know they used it to paint their walls," he added.
The study also found that humans used earthy colours like oranges, yellows and reddish-browns pigments probably derived from various minerals that had been crushed up and then mixed with animal fat or eggs.
They went down to Walmart and picked up a truckload of Mexicans.
Or HOAs telling them can’t use those colors.
“They went down to Walmart and picked up a truckload of Mexicans.”
Actually, the Neaderthals imported Homo Sapien Sapiens to do the work that Neaderthals wouldn’t do. Was working great for a while.
So who put up the wallpaper, window treatments, and the wall-to-wall carpeting?
See next issue of Better Caves and Huts.
painting ping
“So who put up the wallpaper, window treatments, and the wall-to-wall carpeting?”
The homo homo sapien sapiens. They died out.
Odd that it wasn’t all “Navajo white”.
They are talking about 5000 years ago, long after the Neanderthals died out, just a few hundred years before the Great Pyramid was built. This is upwards of 10,000 years after the cave paintings of Spain and France.
“They are talking about 5000 years ago, long after the Neanderthals died out, just a few hundred years before the Great Pyramid was built. This is upwards of 10,000 years after the cave paintings of Spain and France.”
Yes, and my post is pretty clearly a joke. In fact, a specific allusion to illegal immigration.
Humor is not literal. What are you, Data from Star Trek?
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[snip] designs such as chevrons and zig zags painted on [end]
Not being a Star Trek fan, I have no idea who or what Data is (or are).
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