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To: Theoria
I would imagine back then during the ice age most of the time the people were starving and constantly had food on their minds which is why they drew so many animals.

Around ten years ago I saw that movie by Werner Herzog "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" and in 3D! which is about cave paintings in the Chauvet Cave in France which they claim are 30,000 years old, almost as old as Hillary. And it's the same thing, paintings of animals, animals, animals.


12 posted on 03/07/2022 8:00:08 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’ve always loved that drawing/painting - a nice reproduction of it is on my wish-list.

It’s just amazing to me that people that ‘primitive’ would draw horses so sensitively and thoughtfully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave


16 posted on 03/07/2022 8:08:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

How I would love to see the paintings at Chauvet... I hear that the horses are painted three-dimensionally, so a smooth round outcropping of rock would be a horses haunches, etc. An extraordinary artist painted these.


26 posted on 03/07/2022 10:03:15 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda; Theoria; SunkenCiv

As I have posted many times on this subject, I believe we misinterpret these cave and rock paintings.

I believe they were done, not by the males, but by the females.

While the males were out ‘hunting’ for game, the females were decorating their domicile.

Not only decorative wallpaper, but the paintings also served a different purpose: They were what we would call a ‘grocery list’.

The females would point to the object or animal they wanted the males to hunt for dinner!............................


31 posted on 03/08/2022 5:18:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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