[BenLurkin]

Interesting.

[swilhelm73]

Well, weren't the people in Britain 13K years ago celto-iberians?

[SkyPilot]

And the essential preoccupations of this single market in ice-age art, it seems, were hunting and naked dancing girls.

Ug!

[SkyPilot]

"Woman! Me go to Hooters for Reindeer food. Naked dancing girls? Oh no dear! Ahhh...me no want to see that. No--me just like their Pterodactyl wings...that is all."

[marktwain]

Other shapes found at Creswell were initially thought to be long-necked birds. "Looked at another way," said Mr Pettitt, "You see a naked women in profile, with jutting out buttocks and raised arms. It appears to be a picture of women doing a dance in which they thrust out their derrières.

Talk about building an edifice on shaky foundations. It is not even clear what the drawings depict, and this yahoo builds a continent wide culture on this reference.

[B Knotts]

And the essential preoccupations of this single market in ice-age art, it seems, were hunting and naked dancing girls.

For some reason, "...you might be a redneck." comes to mind.

[Larry Lucido]

What, no pics?

[Junior]

"Naked Dancing Girls"

Pornography, the driving force of civilization. Well, that and war ...

[colorado tanker]

I wonder if the joint allowed lap dances.

[concentric circles]

Creswell Crags
Archaeologists made a remarkable discovery at Creswell Crags in April 2003. They found the first and only example of rock art from the Ice Age. All of the pictures found were engraved into the rock and as far as is known colour was not applied to the figures.

Close to the entrance in Church Hole, on a flat surface of rock, is this engraving of an ibex, a goat-like animal. Beneath the figure Ice Age hunters have engraved a series of vertical lines.

This engraving of a bison lies on the same rock surface as the ibex. The artist appears to have used the natural shape of the rock to emphasise the head.

Deeper within Church Hole these engraved figures were found and are believed to be birds with long necks.

[SunkenCiv]

Original topic, 2004. This is an update.

Experts search for Ice Age man
in excavation at cave beauty spot
by Lucy Harvey
8 August 2006

The engravings of animals were found at Church Hole cave, Creswell Crags, at Welbeck near Worksop three years ago and are evidence the limestone gorge near Worksop is one of the most northerly areas explored by man in the Ice Age... Dr Paul Pettit from Sheffield University's Department of Archaeology, who is leading the dig, said: "This is a fantastic opportunity to work at such and important site. We know that Church Hole was excavated very rapidly by the Victorians in the 1870s and very little is known about the animals and people who inhabited this cave during the Ice Age. Many of the bones and stone tools would have been thrown away and now lie within the Victorian spoil heap directly outside the cave's entrance. Our plan is to excavate this spoil heap and find the original Ice Age sediments below which contain bones and other artefacts from the period."

[Redcloak]

Cave Girls Gone Wild?

[Renfield]

"...And the essential preoccupations of this single market in ice-age art, it seems, were hunting and naked dancing girls...." Hunting and naked girls. Come to think of it, Those have occupied most of my thought for the last 30 years. By the way, I had 6 nice bucks in the side yard yesterday afternoon, including a couple of long-tined 8-pointers. Come on, bow season!!

[colorado tanker]

Beer, hunting, naked dancing girls and European vacations. The GGG list is off to a great start today!

[Lloyd227]

"And the essential preoccupations of this single market in ice-age art, it seems, were hunting and naked dancing girls"

Sounds like my construction buddies....

[Thombo2]

"The essential preoccupations it seems,were hunting and naked dancing girls..."The more things change,the more they remain the same.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Other shapes found at Creswell were initially thought to be long-necked birds.

They couldn't tell the difference between birds and girls???

[Ptarmigan]

Interesting. Sounds like a Cro-Magnon painting. I wouldn't be surprised if they got assimilated became the Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, and English today. Cro-Magnon today is Basque, Berber, Guanche, Dal, and possibly Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs.

[stands2reason]

Hunting? This is my desktop pic right now... Dang, it won't post so here's the link to a nice painting called "Young life" by Bo Bartlett

http://www.bobartlettart.com/paintings/oil_enlarge/heartland/younglife.html

Freepers should like this Modern Art!