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Humans understood astronomy 40000 years ago, European caves provide proof
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| 25-03-2021
| chris
Posted on 03/24/2021 11:37:34 PM PDT by PAUL09
Humans understood astronomy 40000 years ago, European caves provide proof
According to a scientific study, 40,000-year-old cave paintings indicate the use of complex astronomy.
According to experts, the ancient paintings that were believed to be symbols of prehistoric animals are actually ancient star maps.
Early cave art reveals that people in the last ice age had a detailed knowledge of the night sky. They were hardly different from us today in terms of intellect. Animal symbols represent star constellations in the night sky.
A new scientific study revealed that humans had a sophisticated knowledge of stars and constellations more than 40,000 years ago. Ancient star maps
Scientists have revealed that ancient humans controlled the passage of time by watching how stars change positions in the sky.
The ancient works of art, found in many places in Europe, are not simply representations of wild animals, as previously thought.
Instead, animal symbols represent constellations of stars in the night sky. They are used to represent dates, marking events like asteroid collisions, explains a new study published by the University of Edinburgh.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Education; History; Science
KEYWORDS: 123oclock4oclockzot; 1of; ancientarcheology; ancientastronomy; archeology; astronomy; blogpimp; bot; europeancaves; getthehook; paulmahesh; troll; zot
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To: Nateman
Yes I suppose a rule of law is the prerequisite for any civilized society. The first examples of writing were not used to tell stories, but to record important trade agreements, so that no one cheated. No doubt it took a combination of things to drag us out of the stone age, and there are too many who want to send us right back again.
To: Dusty Road
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03/25/2021 3:45:15 PM PDT
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Paleo Pete
(I survived the great Texas freeze out. I may not survive biden...)
To: Telepathic Intruder
#4 democrat types over the eons kept interfering with progress. Truly.
To: PAUL09
...marking events like asteroid collisions,...Yeah; early man had a LOT better eyes than we do now.
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posted on
03/26/2021 5:36:08 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Pez149
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posted on
03/26/2021 5:38:17 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Nateman
It got people to work together rather than fight each other.That's worked out well...
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posted on
03/26/2021 5:39:10 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: The Right Edge
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posted on
03/26/2021 5:41:16 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Telepathic Intruder
How can they be so easily fooled by those who give them shiny promises but in action are so obviously corrupt?
It's easier to fool people
than to convince them
that they have been fooled.
― Mark Twain
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03/26/2021 5:42:15 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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posted on
03/26/2021 5:42:47 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: fluorescence
Scientists have revealed that ancient humans controlled the passage of time ...by not letting their mothers-in-law hang around too long.
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03/26/2021 5:44:42 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Pez149
I would image they would carbon date the pigments used in the art.
To: Dusty Road
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posted on
03/26/2021 5:51:12 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Dusty Road
Ancient meaning found of the word FARMER: He_who_cannot_hunt
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03/26/2021 5:54:11 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Nateman
To have agriculture you need a rule of law, otherwise hungry neighbors just raid your crops before you get any.I've given up gardening.
Too many fat bunnies and deer and birds in my area.
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03/26/2021 5:56:01 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Telepathic Intruder
When one dot, scratch mark, notch equaled one item; SOMEBODY (probably who kept losing track of the counting) figured out that a DIFFERENT mark could stand for GROUPS of items; well then....
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03/26/2021 5:59:02 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Telepathic Intruder
‘Tis amazing the Romans did so well without a ZERO!
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posted on
03/26/2021 5:59:28 AM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: PAUL09
When there wasn’t even any Hollywood.
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03/26/2021 6:01:59 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Elsie
The Romans never made much use of mathematics besides adding and subtracting, so they had not much use for a zero either. So it’s amazing that they were somehow able to build such complex structures as bridges and stadiums.
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