Posted on 04/30/2011 12:15:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Laas Gaal, Somalia (also known as Laas Geel), just outside of Haregeisa, the capital of Somalia's self-declared Somaliland state, contains 10 caves that show vivid depictions of a pastoralist history which dates back to some 5,000 years or more, reports AFP. A French archaeology team was sent in 2002 to survey Somalia in search of rock shelters and caves that might contain stratified archaeological infills that could document the period when production economy appeared in this part of the Horn of Africa, according to Wikipedia. During the survey, the Laas Geel cave paintings were discovered. 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... Sada Mire, a Somali-born British archaeologist who is working to preserve the rare heritage, explained to AFP that the paintings of decorated cows, herders and wild animals show a period when the region that is now the barren Horn of Africa was lush and had plenty of wild animals. Laas Gaal, translated to mean "camel watering hole," no longer attracts herds of cattle to graze and water. Human settlement is sparse and the land is dry and parched.
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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.
It’s Somalia....So?
Is there a drawing of a taxi cab?
Do the depictions of the people have high foreheads?
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I have often wondered why, if Africa is the cradle of mankind why, they all left.
That past civilization that you disparage was much more advanced than what they have now under Islam.
“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.
So nothing has changed for Somalia in five thousand years.
Backward is as backward does, Mom always said.
;’)
Maybe so. Still doesn’t say much.
I’d like to know what happened to all the binkies.
My pleasure. I doubt that a day on FR goes by without my learning something new, more than once.
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.
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.
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