[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?

[Sawdring]

Do the depictions of the people have high foreheads?

[Little Bill]

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

[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...

[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.

[Towed_Jumper]

“Early Somali Life Depicted In Cave Paintings”

I suspect that “early Somali life” looked a lot like “current Somali life” —only without the AK47’s.

[taraytarah]

"We know that the painters were pastoralists who lived in a much better climate than the present.”

Ancient climate change due to those danged unregulated 1500 B.C. Somali carbon footprints.