[SunkenCiv]

Handprints and footprints (left) and 3-D scan of handprints and footprints (right) [World's First Artists | Top 10 Discoveries of 2021 | January/February 2022 | Eric A. Powell]

Courtesy David Zhang

[chajin]

Many of these societies regarded caves as gateways to the underworld

Can you dig it?

[ansel12]

******the new research proposes that children were also considered to have unique mental and cognitive traits different from adults, which allowed them to communicate with entities from the beyond that were believed to be accessible from the cavern depths. “Many of these societies regarded caves as gateways to the underworld where, through shamanic rituals, they could communicate with cosmic entities and inhabitants of the underworld, to resolve existential problems,” said archaeologist Ran Barkai. “In this context, young children were perceived as liminal beings, belonging to both the realm they had left just recently (before birth) and the world they currently inhabit. Thus, small children were considered particularly suited to bridging the gap between the worlds and delivering messages to non-human entities.”******

I don’t know the subject, but really???

For those who do know, how are they piecing that all together?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It was a daycare.

[Verginius Rufus]

"Many of these bear hand prints..."

I have seen photos of human hand prints from these caves, but none of bear hand prints. Shouldn't that be "paw prints"?

It's amazing that people in the East Indies and in western Europe, about the same time, got the idea of marking surfaces with hand prints.

[Vaduz]

Cave man warning RUN