Posted on 09/13/2018 2:36:48 PM PDT by ETL
The earliest known drawing made by a human has been found in a South African cave and it looks very similar to a hashtag, the grouping and search feature made popular by the Jack Dorsey-led Twitter.
The drawing is basically six red lines crossed by three other slightly curved lines. It appears on a tiny flake of mineral crust measuring only about 1.5 inches long and about half an inch tall. It's evidently part of a larger drawing because lines reaching the edge are cut off abruptly there, researchers said.
"Before this discovery, Palaeolithic archaeologists have for a long time been convinced that unambiguous symbols first appeared when Homo sapiens entered Europe, about 40,000 years ago, and later replaced local Neanderthals," said University of Bergen professor Christopher Henshilwood in a statement. ..."
The 73,000 year-old drawing was found in the Blombos Cave, approximately 190 miles east of Cape Town, researchers said. It is roughly 30,000 years older than any other drawing presently known to humanity, the researchers said. ..."
While it is not the earliest deliberate design (some abstract engravings are significantly older), it does highlight that early humans were able to produce designs on various surfaces with different techniques. It was created with a sharpened flake of ochre, a pigment widely used in the ancient world, Henshilwood told the Associated Press.
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Lol!
Lol!
See
I better take a closer look at the piece of Port Elizabeth that I brought home with me. I thought it was just a piece of rock.
It depicted Nancy Pelosi, who was on Social Security at the time.
It`s a guy with a spear stabbing something on the ground as a woman in a bikini looks on at the right.
There! Look!
What does it say? What language is that?
Brother Maynard, you're our scholar.
It is Aramaic!
Of course. Joseph of Arimathea!
-Of course.
-What does it say?
It reads, "Here may be found...
"...the last words of Joseph of Arimathea:
"'He who is valiant and pure of spirit...
"'...may find the Holy Grail...
"'...in the Castle of Aaargh."'
What?
"The Castle of Aaargh."
What is that?
He must have died while carving it.
-Come on!
-That's what it says.
Look, if he was dying,
he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaargh."
-He'd just say it.
-That's what's carved in the rock.
-Perhaps he was dictating it.
-Shut up!
-Does it say anything else?
-No!
Just "Aaargh."
Doesn’t look a bit like a hashtag. It’s a teeny tiny part of a larger drawing.
73,000 years old - My uncle Bob swears his longevity is his vegan diet.
Wonder if he did nose art. :-)
Q will be along any minute to tell us all what it means.
*ping*
I always thought that Bob Ross would be perfect therapy for people who needed to calm down. No matter how agitated a person might be, after a half-hour of Bob Ross, you were going to be chilled out!
Hummphf. Scholars!
Not art, a tool. Maybe a tool for sharpening or polishing bone needles. (For use as an awl in leather working...poke holes for leather stitching.)
Could be a handstone. Put grain on another rock (quern) or in a stone troth and run it back and forth over grain or nuts. (Later grinding stones were circular.) It looks like earlier set of hatch markings has been worn down.
An early unsuccessful file...
He was great, Bob Ross. He must have inspired thousands to take up painting as a hobby. I think I read somewhere that he was a drill instructor in the Army or Marines.
Thanks for the ping, mail, and topic! As I noted in private, it may have been a prehistoric daycare, or as Happy Gilmore would say, I've seen those fingerpaintings and they suck.
Military career
In 1961, then 18-year-old Ross enlisted in the United States Air Force and was put into service as a medical records technician.[6]:15
He eventually rose to the rank of master sergeant and served as the first sergeant of the U.S. Air Force Clinic at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska,[7][8] where he first saw the snow and mountains that later became recurring themes in his artwork. He developed his quick-painting technique to create art for sale during brief daily work breaks.[8]
Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, “tough” and “mean”, “the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work”, Ross decided that if he ever left the military, he would never yell or raise his voice again.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross#Military_career
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