Posted on 06/02/2006 10:51:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An ancient cave discovered in December in western France contains a rare find: a 27,000-year-old human skeleton in a painted room and a drawing of a human face, experts announced Friday after months of study... A single painted face found in the cave also could be among the oldest graphic representations of a human face, said Jean-Yves Baratin, archaeology curator for the Poitou-Charentes region... The other instance in which a body was found in a decorated cave is in the hamlet of Cussac, a grotto that experts have said was as important for engravings as paintings are for the famed Lascaux caves. The Vilhonneur cave features a series of paintings, including one in which a human hand is imprinted on a wall by adding colour around it.
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Wonderful finds. In other caves, in the Pryrenees, they have outlines of hands on the walls. They say it had some ritualistic significance.
On the other hand, it could just be the equivalent of "Kilroy Was Here"
They hadn't invented towels, and had to wipe their hands somewhere. :')
*****Wonderful finds. In other caves, in the Pryrenees, they have outlines of hands on the walls. They say it had some ritualistic significance.*****
Cool stuff...but when I hear these archeologists and anthropologists speculate like that, I often wonder what aliens would think if they came down on Earth 20,000 years from now and discover "ancient ritualistic" games of tic-tac-toe scratched on a wall. =P
Here I have pictures to support my claims, and I'll you what ... those caves are surrounded by all sorts of legends of the most CREEPY kinds.
It would probably be the basis for some sort of intergalactic "Da Vinci Code" novel. :)
The caves were inhabited by fairy princesses and ogressess who imprisoned men and drank their blood ... better watch out SCiv ... if you think that US left-leaning feminists are bad, imagine being imprisoned in that cave by a Pyrenean nature spirit.
Probably a prehistoric haunted house tourist attraction. ;')
I've read that the hand prints were done as a way of saying, "I was here". I have wondered before whether anyone has ever tried viewing the walls in other spectra, to see if there are layers of older hands.
Uh-oh, looks like I'm way behind here...
Cave Drawings Reportedly 25,000 Years Old
Associated Press | February 5, 2006 | Anon
Posted on 02/05/2006 10:34:22 PM EST by Pharmboy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572503/posts
related topics:
Dancing Girls And The Merry Magdalenian (13,000 Y.O. Painting, UK)
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 4-15-2004 | Sean Clarke
Posted on 04/18/2004 1:48:32 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1119916/posts
Oldest rock art in Britain: 12,800 years
Telegraph (UK) ^ | 22/04/2005 | Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Posted on 04/24/2005 4:40:48 AM EDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390033/posts
Macro-Etymology: Paleosigns [writing 20,000 years ago?]
Macro-Etymology Website ^ | prior to May 20, 2005 | the webmasters thereof
Posted on 05/20/2005 2:00:18 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1406892/posts
Jewel Of The Magalenian Period (15,500 YO Necklace/Pendants, Basque Country)
Berria ^ | 10-4-2005 | Mikel Lizarralde
Posted on 10/04/2005 2:56:05 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496503/posts
Are cave paintings really little more than the testosterone-fuelled scribblings of young men?
nature news ^ | 31 may | some guy
Posted on 06/01/2006 10:17:07 AM EDT by S0122017
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1641738/posts
Now THAT was a fun trip down an alternate path! Thanks for the link to a fascinating thread!
Hmmmm, looks like they're flashing gang signs to me!
This is the first I've heard of a cave puking.
Not to mention the "...millions of shiny, circular plastic disks, 14 flids in diameter, with a 1.3 flid central hole. Most are found in rectangular display cases, which hold a single disk, though some cases hold two, or even three disks. Some are blank on both sides, though most have undecipherable patterns applied on one side. A very few have what appear to be representational art work on one side. All have at least one side blank.
Mainstream xenoethnographers believe these are ritualistic items; some radical iconoclasts speculate, that they are a form of currency. A few untrained popular sensationalists, such as Von Lokigan, make unsupported claims that they are an unknown form of data storage device."
I read a really funny one once, about some form of alter bolted to the floor...turned out it was a toilet.
It works, too; after 24-72 hours of making offerings several times a day, I would be cured.
LOLOLOL
I comes from overeating, y'know, the nearby gorge, that kind of thing.
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