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Ancient code in Ice Age drawings solved
Heritage Daily ^ | January 5, 2023 | Markus Milligan

Posted on 01/06/2023 10:01:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe they were just keeping track of kills.


21 posted on 01/07/2023 4:47:23 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: SunkenCiv

This was a hypothesis put forth by an amateur ignored by professionals for years.


22 posted on 01/07/2023 5:44:13 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Knowing when they birth offspring might give then an advantage to taking game. Knowing when they rut might offer the same advantage.


23 posted on 01/07/2023 5:48:37 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You would think the Hunters would commit to memory that animals give birth in the Spring

https://worlddeer.org/when-do-deer-give-birth/


24 posted on 01/07/2023 6:19:17 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: shoff

>>Maybe they were just keeping track of kills<<.

All this time, I thought they were gang signs...


25 posted on 01/07/2023 6:21:32 AM PST by Does so (It's not OUR guns...It's YOUR sons!)
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To: piasa

You are thinking like a modern hunter with access to grocery stores and no competition or predation from Cave Bears and Sabertooth Tigers to name a few.


26 posted on 01/07/2023 6:24:36 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
You are thinking like a modern hunter with access to grocery stores and no competition or predation from Cave Bears and Sabertooth Tigers to name a few.

...and knocking down a testosterone addled and enraged buck at 100 yds with a rifle, not by getting a few feet away with a stick with a stone point and risking getting gored for your pains!

27 posted on 01/07/2023 6:57:27 AM PST by null and void (It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
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To: alexander_busek

Nope, I’m not a hunter, but we get LOTS of whitetail crossing our property and even I know to be wary of the bucks in the fall.


28 posted on 01/07/2023 7:10:49 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: PIF

“Have to move elsewhere”

From what I understand, those tribes were always on the move. People didn’t remain in one spot long until agriculture was invented and that was long after these cave paintings (I think).


29 posted on 01/07/2023 7:14:11 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: Williams

Which is why, when I DID hunt white tails, I harvested only doe and yearlings. Yeah, it cost me $$$ for the antlerless tags, but the meat was better and the quantity available to me greater. Venison just tastes better without all that testosterone and adrenaline.


30 posted on 01/07/2023 7:15:55 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: null and void

getting a few feet away with a stick with a stone point and risking getting gored for your pains!

While being stalked by a packs of Smilodons and Chasmaporthetes, and having to pass throughout the territory of a cave bear on the way home.


31 posted on 01/07/2023 7:16:17 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Not so - modern archeology says many stayed in the same local for long periods


32 posted on 01/07/2023 7:17:34 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: piasa

Do you think there were enough human hunters to affect the population of the great herds of game? I’d think there were so few humans that they wouldn’t have to worry about or plan for game resource management.


33 posted on 01/07/2023 7:17:55 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: Steven Tyler
"You would think the Hunters would commit to memory that animals give birth in the Spring"

It seems odd, after modern humans had been hunting animals for tens of thousands of years, that they needed a subterranean reference library for something so basic. I bet they even knew what season the animals bred too.

34 posted on 01/07/2023 7:18:36 AM PST by Flag_This
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To: Flag_This

Yup, when the Males of the species rut and compete with other Males for the attention and right to breed with a female.

Hey, it’s late Summer/early Fall and the Bucks are acting weird, just like every prior year


35 posted on 01/07/2023 7:25:04 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: SunkenCiv

So many of those cave drawings are more like spreadsheets than picassos.


36 posted on 01/07/2023 7:58:57 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: PIF

Fast hunting hyenas are no laughing matter!


37 posted on 01/07/2023 8:05:21 AM PST by null and void (It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
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To: PIF

“modern archeology says many stayed in the same local for long periods”

Not at the time set by the article were they staying in one place. FTA: 20,000 years ago. The ice age at the time was in full effect. There was zero agriculture in Europe at that time (otherwise there would be crude calendars marking equinoxes to calibrate plantings). PPl had to move to following animals if they wanted to eat. Any ‘they stayed in one place’ correlation is only because the same areas were reoccupied yearly correlated to seasonal hunting grounds.

No agriculture = hunter/gatherers. Which means moving to follow the prey.


38 posted on 01/07/2023 8:35:00 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Williams; Buttons12

Ours or theirs?.......................


39 posted on 01/09/2023 5:24:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

As I have said many many times, ‘Cave Art’ is nothing more than the Cave WOMAN’s shopping list.

Instructions to the CAVE MAN as to what to bring home for din-din.

The dots simply are the number of times they have had leftovers.............


40 posted on 01/09/2023 5:29:38 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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