Posted on 10/29/2011 6:12:54 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Edited on 10/29/2011 7:30:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
What the evolutionary history of the dog tells us about another animal: ourselves. From a cave in France, a new picture has emerged of canines as our prehistoric soulmates.
Chauvet Cave in southern France houses the oldest representational paintings ever discovered. Created some 32,000 years ago, the 400-plus images of large grazing animals and the predators who hunted them form a multi-chambered Paleolithic bestiary. Many scholars believe that these paintings mark the emergence of a recognizably modern human consciousness. We feel that we know their creators, even though they are from a time and place as alien as another planet.
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The only problem with that is that I think the whole pack would have to have been eliminated. While the parents might have died, it’s a fat chance the whole pack would have been lost and I think the pack might take responsibility for its pups, even if they’re not offspring of any left.
I’m thinking it likely that the pack would have been killed by the people. Why not, if they were predators, seems likely humans may have routinely killed them if they could.
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