Posted on 04/11/2020 4:33:07 PM PDT by mairdie
Cave paintings of the Spanish Altamira Cave and the French Lascaux Cave, to the Hurrian Hymns from "Music of the Ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks." They're around 17,000 years old.
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In her Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology, Mary Settegast reproduces a table which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Paleolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet.
Are you saying they not only had paint that lasted thousands of years (unlike paint today) but they also had light sources without smoke? Right? What are you REALLY saying?
We time travelers have our sources... the truth will out. ;^)
I like that...yes we do.
Excellent, as always. So much better than a lot of scribbling that passes as “art” these days. Please, please,(although I do think you are sane so I’m sure you wouldn’t) don’t ever make a Basquait video.
Some of the animals, especially at Altamira suggest those found in centuries old Chinese scroll work. There’s something about the quality of the drawings and the limited palette of both.
In a little less than 20 years looking at hundreds of pieces by local artists I’ve seen ONE watercolor that could have come from those caves. The Ancient Artists really knew their stuff.
Hope you had a wonderful Easter.
Stay safe and thanks for sharing your special talents with us.
IIUC, savage relates to behavior, not to intelligence or lack of sophistication.
Savege, compared with what, jihadists? The left? The 20th century?
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