Early Somali Life Depicted In Cave Paintings

RedOrbit ^ | Monday, April 25, 2011 | Staff & Wire Reports

[SunkenCiv]

Some of the paintings in the Laas Geel caves. Credit: Abdullah Geelah/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

[Gaffer]

I dunno.....looks like some Somali Pirates attacking a vessel at sea to me..... please don’t try to tell me this is culture, or art, or evidence of an advanced civilization.

[Vendome]

It’s Somalia....So?

[From The Deer Stand]

Is there a drawing of a taxi cab?

[Sawdring]

Do the depictions of the people have high foreheads?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Little Bill]

I have often wondered why, if Africa is the cradle of mankind why, they all left.

[353FMG]

That past civilization that you disparage was much more advanced than what they have now under Islam.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“The paintings were in excellent condition, depicting ancient humans who lived in the area raising their hands and worshipping humpless cows with large lyre-shaped horns... :

Some things never change.

[Doulos1]

So nothing has changed for Somalia in five thousand years.
Backward is as backward does, Mom always said.

[Dr.Deth]

From further up in the cave...

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Gaffer]

Maybe so. Still doesn’t say much.

[SunkenCiv]

I’d like to know what happened to all the binkies.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. I doubt that a day on FR goes by without my learning something new, more than once.

[Yaelle]

And even farther up in the cave:

[Little Bill]

That was at a new level of subtlety.

[marsh2]

These are lovely. They are abstracted almost like modern art. Note how they emphasize the udder. This is a detail that hunters would likely leave out and did in the European cave art. I would hazard a guess theses cows were domesticated from that detail.

[marsh2]

These are lovely. They are abstracted almost like modern art. Note how they emphasize the udder. This is a detail that hunters would likely leave out and did in the European cave art. I would hazard a guess these cows were domesticated from that detail.