Posted on 06/14/2021 1:11:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, believed to be the world's oldest, is decaying at a rapid pace because of salt erosion likely caused by climate change, archaeologists have warned.
The painting of a group of therianthropes, or humans with animal characteristics, appearing to hunt animals was found in a limestone cave in 2017 and dated to nearly 44,000 years ago.
Experts are now racing against time to find ways to preserve the priceless Pleistocene artwork.
(Excerpt) Read more at asiaone.com ...
They’re gonna ban salt now?
So, take a picture of it and we’ll have it forever.
Always a dig in with climate change we had two ice ages why don’t we try to replicate those?
Right now is just a happy lull between Ice Ages.
Everything flourishes during “global warming”.
Ice ages?
Not so much.
/mass extinction events, anyone?
I was turned into a salamander.
No change, so far.
Okay, there is absolutely no way the climate is doing anything right now it hasn’t done multiple times over the last 44,000 years.
You know what I bet is significantly different? The number of archaeologists and onlookers walking around breathing and sweating in close proximity to some 44,000 year old cave paintings.
It was Climate Change. I knew it!
I am SO stealing that!
LOL
> rapid pace because of salt erosion likely caused by climate change
Is there anything climate change can’t do?
I just “over” boiled some eggs to the tune of an hour.
[yes, I forgot I was making them]
This, too, I blame on climate change.
And my height.
Surely the climate is responsible for my failure to attain the Amazonian heights of my family.
/dirty bastard climate change!
Stop, apparently.
Bloomberg was way ahead of his time /s
Big Gulps destroy the world!
[Oh, no, they say he’s got to go! Go, go, Gulpzilla!]
The Caves Of Altamira
By Donald Fagen and Walter Becker (Steely Dan, 1976)
I recall when I was small
How I spent my days alone
The busy world was not for me
So I went and found my own
I would climb the garden wall
With a candle in my hand
I’d hide inside a hall of rock and sand
On the stone an ancient hand
In a faded yellow-green
Made alive a worldly wonder
Often told but never seen
Now and ever bound to labor
On the sea and in the sky
Every man and beast appeared
A friend as real as I
Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall
When there wasn’t even any Hollywood
They heard the call
And they wrote it on the wall
For you and me we understood
Can it be this sad design
Could be the very same
A wooly man without a face
And a beast without a name
Nothin’ here but history
Can you see what has been done
Memory rush over me
Now I step into the sun
Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall
When there wasn’t even any Hollywood
They heard the call
And they wrote it on the wall
For you and me we understood
Get back, Jack, that was a good tune!
Well played sir
I’s a chick.
:D
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