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To: SunkenCiv

I really love cave art. But I have never understood why those artists could depict animals so elegantly and perfectly while representing humans as stick figures.


6 posted on 09/05/2023 4:44:53 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: SMARTY

That’s how humans looked back then. It’s analogous to this:

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/11/09


7 posted on 09/05/2023 5:10:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/ashleigh%20brilliant%20--%20home%20page_files/1085.gif)
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To: SMARTY

...or maybe they were just on the paleo diet...


9 posted on 09/05/2023 5:16:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SMARTY

“Specifically, they discovered new depictions of horses, deer, and a large bovid (possibly an aurochs) that had not been recognized before.”

Hidden from eyes for centuries.

Alas, poor aurochs!


16 posted on 09/05/2023 10:26:12 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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