A prehistoric map painted on a cave in India

Stone Pages ^ | Friday, December 31, 2010 | Archaeo News

[MarineBrat]

Bite me, God hating Commie rat.

[muawiyah]

Hey, you’re the guy into necromancy here.

[muawiyah]

Here's you problem. You can be a man and exercise your authority over words. Or you can be a fool and let others imprison you within their use of words.

I prefer to command words, and not let words command me.

[SunkenCiv]

They’re free, just have to shop at night.

[MarineBrat]

>>>Here’s you problem

I guess by your dialect, I should say “you be my problem!”

[muawiyah]

You so funny ~ so strange!

[gitmo]

I can only think of one or two more inconvenient places to put a map. One of them would get my post removed from the thread.

[RingerSIX]

Gee whiz, you're the guy who wants us all to bow down before mammon...

Geepers! Aheelt...shazam. Guffaw. Chortle.

Religion is voluntary. Commie scum rats like you spit in the eye of all things voluntary.

[muawiyah]

I am asking that you be banned. We do not tolerate name calling like that. My Conservative credentials are pure and unblemished.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[RingerSIX]

>>I am asking that you be banned.

[rissole]

“I’m sure the maps were drawn by men, so they didn’t have to stop and ask directions. :^)”

:)

[Cronos]

I notice that the term “BCE” is used in the West only — it is not used in India quite as much

[Cronos]

Karnataka in south-western India is right now Dravidian. It had some ARyans (Konkani-speakers) moving in to their west coasts around 1500 to 1000 years ago. In 1500 BC there were no Aryans there and most likely not even Dravidian but might have been related to the bhil tribals (Austroloid peoples)

[Cronos]

In India they mostly do not follow the PC term "BCE" -- that is used mostly by secularists in the West as part of their lame attempt to remove Christianity from the public forum

This is lame because what the heck is the "common era"? What happened in 0 BCE if not Christ's birth?

The problem with using the term, muawiyah, is the same as using the term "Happy Holidays" (which I loathe -- I'd rather wish "Merry Christmas" or "Eid Mubarak" or "Happy Holi" or "Diwali Shubh shubh") -- words do matter and you know that. By changing the term from "homosexual" to "gay", it lightens the tone and makes the act seem almost acceptable.

[MarineBrat]

In India they mostly do not follow the PC term "BCE" -- that is used mostly by secularists in the West as part of their lame attempt to remove Christianity from the public forum

Exactly. And there are those of us here in America who are old enough to be aware of this via life experience, who will not back down for any reason. If I'm presented with the acronym BCE, then I will not trust or cooperate with the source.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cronos!

[colorado tanker]

Look, we don't do crevo wars or ADBC/CEBCE wars here. Blam/SunkenCiv/GGG threads are off limits. We are interested in the history and archeology.

Personally, I'm a traditionalist and don't like the new labels. But I don't want to spend my time on a thousand rants that won't make any difference. I'd rather read about interesting discoveries. It is conservatives who want to keep our history alive and liberals who want people to forget it and believe instead their folklore fantasies.

M is an interesting contributor to this forum. He's no commie.

[RingerSIX]

>>>M is an interesting contributor to this forum. He’s no commie.

Perhaps so, but he needs to learn to lighten up when it comes to FR symbology and what it means to us. The promotion of the “new” term BCE is a well known strategy of “commie scum.” When it comes to Christian symbology and the foundational tenets of America, I will not back down, ever, for any reason, ever (yes-again), and those who want to defend the use of BCE as opposed to BC are fair and legitimate game.

Consider me to be a FR zombie-bot, if you will. I will argue for traditional American values, to any end.

[allmendream]

The term “Cave man” is a misnomer.

Mankind has almost always been a house builder, and the marks from their post holes are contemporanous with the famous cave paintings. A gorgeous Anthropologist I was speaking with once pointed out that the first thing a bunch of children off in the woods do is “build a fort”, it is almost instinctive.

The “Cave man” paintings survived because they were in a cave, not because people spent a majority of their time in caves.

So yes, 4,000 years ago there were permanent settlements in that area; but that doesn't preclude them from hanging out occasionally in caves - and painting the walls.