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Stone Age DIY: How Neolithic man decorated his house with homemade paint
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | Oct. 30, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 10/30/2010 8:58:38 PM PDT by fightinJAG

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1 posted on 10/30/2010 8:58:40 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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To: fightinJAG

“Homemade” paint? Well, what the hell-other-kind-of paint would cavemen use?


2 posted on 10/30/2010 8:59:24 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG; SunkenCiv

Ping!


3 posted on 10/30/2010 9:05:09 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: fightinJAG

Paint bought at the Lowes cave?


4 posted on 10/30/2010 9:09:14 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
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To: fightinJAG

Got that!

These dudes were seriously fit to be tied, looking for something to do ‘til the weather broke.

Imagine being hunkered down in a cave/hut with the britannic version of Oprah.

I’d be out hunting in the worst of weather.


5 posted on 10/30/2010 9:11:47 PM PDT by One Name
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To: Celtic Cross

Yeah, the Lowe’s cave was right next to the Geico cave!


6 posted on 10/30/2010 9:13:18 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG

Where you can save 15% or more on mammoth insurance.


7 posted on 10/30/2010 9:14:02 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
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8 posted on 10/30/2010 9:17:39 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Celtic Cross

bbwwwwwahahahaah


9 posted on 10/30/2010 9:22:08 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: BigEdLB

Oh Lawd. Now we just need to post that pic of John Kerry in the hazmat suit, Dukakis on the tank, Obama trying to figure out how to walk with an umbrella under a gate . . .


10 posted on 10/30/2010 9:23:31 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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Oh Lawd. Now we just need to post that pic of John Kerry in the hazmat suit, Dukakis on the tank, Obama trying to figure out how to walk with an umbrella under a gate

OK... Done
11 posted on 10/30/2010 9:35:51 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: BigEdLB

Outstanding job. Thank you.


12 posted on 10/30/2010 10:14:32 PM PDT by Former War Criminal (My senior Senator [who served in Vietnam and Rhode Island] said so.)
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To: fightinJAG

But he couldn`t paint it if it was a rented cave.


13 posted on 10/30/2010 10:25:09 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: fightinJAG

What’s with all the stuff about caves and “cavemen”? Reading the article itself shows they’re talking about huts with stone walls. “Cavemen” for early man is kind of a misnomer anyway — there aren’t that many caves to go around and never one when you need it while following the herds. People wouldn’t have lived exclusively in caves (though they would have certainly taken advantage of a nice dry one as opportunity permitted). But temporary shelters like huts, lean-tos, wigwams, etc. weren’t preserved, while caves did preserve human artifacts (most spectacularly the cave wall paintings in France). So there was a selection effect. Artifacts in caves were preserved and thus found, while everything else was lost or harder to find, and so the impression got into the popular mind of “cavemen.”


14 posted on 10/30/2010 10:57:40 PM PDT by Deklane
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All I know is that I was spectacularly disappointed by the abrupt cancellation of the “Cavemen” sitcom.


15 posted on 10/30/2010 11:01:48 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: fightinJAG

It’s prehistory we’re talking about, but I think we can be pretty sure that they didn’t call it “DIY” back then. Cavemen were deprived but they weren’t losers who never do anything useful.


16 posted on 10/31/2010 12:44:11 AM PDT by dr_who
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17 posted on 10/31/2010 5:46:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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Ask Sherman-Williams!


18 posted on 10/31/2010 6:53:06 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must-like men-undergo the fatigue of supporting it)
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19 posted on 10/31/2010 7:01:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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Cave Depot


20 posted on 10/31/2010 7:02:55 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Drizzle, drazzle, dradle, drone. It is time for Obama to go home.)
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