Prehistoric Hand Stencils In Spanish Caves Not Randomly Placed, Say Researchers

Popular Archaeology ^ | Sunday, April 17, 2016 | editors

[Buttons12]

“This way to the egress.”

“Easy meal here.”

“Gents.”

[Buttons12]

I couldn't draw a horse or lion from memory like that

I bet you could if dinner depended on it!

[Cvengr]

Obviously the cavewoman was directing the caveman where to place their art, ....until they got it just right.

[Monkey Face]

Whoa! <3

[Sawdring]

That is really interesting, thanks for the post! East is at the top.

[Safetgiver]

Maybe it means “Goomba at 4 yrs. old. Goomba at 7 years old. Goomba just before the bear ate him.” We had the same type of markings in my old farmhouse before the bulldozer ate it.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“Mog, why you no bring flowers to cave like other troglodytes?”

“Talk to the hand!”

[sdpatriot]

wow, those are beautiful..... reminds me of da Vinci

[sdpatriot]

found this

from Latin Hibernia, the Roman name for Ireland, also in forms Iverna, Juverna, Ierne, etc., all ultimately from Old Celtic *Iveriu “Ireland” (see Irish (n.)). This particular form of the name was altered in Latin as though it meant “land of winter” (see hibernation).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Hibernia

[Tucker39]

Those rascals were clever. Next we’ll find some tie dyed saber toothed tiger skins.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s Hibernia.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, sorry, you’d caught it.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s thumb accomplishment.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[SunkenCiv]

It’s speculative of course, but if that’s why we do it, why not? :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Put 37,000 cave artists to work in a cave for 37,000 years, one of them will write a Shakespeare play — unfortunately, we’ll never figure out the translation.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[colorado tanker]

This is a very punny thread.

[Verginius Rufus]

Interesting map. It has Ravenna on the wrong side of the Apennines.

[TXnMA]

Now, that is an interesting map! They managed to get in essentially every known country -- in somewhat related positions -- but they had almost zero sense of direction.

Yet, even with the distortion, modern geographers can say, Mount Sinai should be about here." -- and,there it is...

That is an amazing amount of data! And, it makes surprisingly good sense...

Thanks for posting it!