This includes a picture of a wild pig drawn 45,500 years ago on the island of Sulawesi...
IOW< no, it isn't. Shakedown alert. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Posted on 05/19/2021 5:09:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Indonesian rock art is decaying at an alarming rate due to the effects of climate change, researchers said.
This includes a picture of a wild pig drawn 45,500 years ago on the island of Sulawesi - said to be the world's oldest animal cave painting.
Other cave motifs in the region depicting hunting scenes and supernatural beings have also crumbled faster as temperatures increase.
The findings signal that more needs to be done to preserve the priceless art.
"[These pieces of art are] disappearing before our eyes," study lead Dr Jillian Huntley, from the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, said in a press statement.
In a study published in Scientific Reports last week, a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers found that increased temperatures and other extreme weather patterns - such as consecutive dry days and heavy monsoons - have accelerated the build-up of salts within the cave systems housing the rock art.
The salts swell and shrink as the environment heats and cools. On hot days, geological salts can grow to more than three times their initial size, the team wrote.
Dr Huntley added that she believed the "degradation of this incredible rock art is set to worsen the higher global temperatures climb."
"I was gobsmacked by how prevalent the destructive salt crystals and their chemistry were on the rock art panels, some of which we know to be more than 40,000 years old," she said.
"We urgently need further rock art and conservation research to have the best chance of preserving the Pleistocene cave paintings of Indonesia."
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Bill dies and goes to Hell. He is in a room in s#*t up to his waist with Uncle Joe and Adlof and they are up to their necks in it. So they ask Bill why he is only up to his waist and he says he is standing on Hillarys shoulders.
This includes a picture of a wild pig drawn 45,500 years ago on the island of Sulawesi...
IOW< no, it isn't. Shakedown alert. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Thanks for the pings! I had the GGG message on deck, then took a nap. [blush]
If it was that important, why didn’t they take steps to preserve it, like with some glass or something?...............
Looks to me like an editorial cartoon directed at the tribal leadership
Yeah but that was okay, because diversity.
“...and the hogs ate ‘im”
Weird random musing time...
When we switched pharmacies, I walked in and immediately remarked to the pharmacist “Oh wow. Your wallpaper is the “Hall Of Bulls” from Lascaux.
He steps back and looks around and says OMG, it is.
It’s very subtly done in pastel pinks, blues and rust, but it is the Hall of Bulls.
I’ve tried for 15 years to find it and buy it with no luck, but he promised he’ll save it for me if they ever remodel.
HALL OF BULL....................
Or, as happens in muzzie hellholes everywhere, dynamite it, or fire RPGs into it?
They are afraid somebody might see it and say, “Why, looky here, Mabel! An idol statue! Let’s fall down and worship it!”.......................
Well played, sir.
Well played.
Well played sir!
Those were the days.
:D
So?
It is amazing it lasted that long.
If it is really that important, move it.
Wish I could remember them :)
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