Image Credit : Durham University
Why would hunter/gatherers want to write down the mating and birthing seasons of animals? Wouldn’t they just go kill animals as needed?
Coding. So easy, a caveman could do it.
Martin Sweatman wrote a book a few years back dealing with Cave Art and after much study determined that constellations were being depicted amd that the probability of these being anything else but constellations were something like a million to one—
he also has a blogspot: https://martinsweatman.blogspot.com Read for yourself and decide. He originally got into this line of study after seeing about Goblekli Tepe and decided to try and decode the one of the Columns.
His decoding shows that column 47 (?) depcits the season and the constellation when a comet or bollide was seen in the skies that lead to horrendous earth changes. Fascinating stuff.
I read an article earlier today here on Free Republic asking as to why science seems to be stymied when it comes to innovation these days. I would say that it is because independent researchers are ignored and cast aside. In years of old, all science was done by independent and self taught curious men. Because someone does not have letters behind their name does not mean that their research is not valid...
Fine Arts - Cave Paintings - Altamira Cave - Lascaux Cave - Hurrian Hymns
https://youtu.be/l99Lk66V0js
I used to oike The Flintstones intro where Fred eats a huge stack of ribs.
Oog loves Zelda?
At least that is what they think it means.
Maybe they were just keeping track of kills.
This was a hypothesis put forth by an amateur ignored by professionals for years.
So many of those cave drawings are more like spreadsheets than picassos.
