"A. Ashkuff, I just read the following, and I thought it kind of addressed your questions. The quote doesn't pertain to the above image, and it is more general. Perhaps it will help you sleep or stay awake longer:
"The Lascaux caves,…"
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Did Cro-Magnon Talk to Each Other Symbols?
This article just came out in The Guardian:…Continue
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Neanderthals Can Paint!
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The oldest work of art ever": 42,000-year-old paintings of seals found in Spanish cave…Continue
Tags: painting, Nerja, Caves, 000-year-old, 42
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holmes.tom posted a discussionDid Cro-Magnon Talk to Each Other Symbols?
This article just came out in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/11/cave-painting-symbols-language-evolution It discusses how Genevieve von Petzinger and April Nowell have discovered 26 recurring symbols that they think might have been symbols of communication. (I like how there are 26 in a coincidental match of our 26 letters.) Here are 24 of them:…See More
A. Ashkuff replied to holmes.tom's discussion Neanderthals Can Paint!"Yet, I still wonder. What purpose of these paintings have served?
Surely, it's wasn't for mere aesthetic, since it was painted in the dark.
Damn, this is going to keep up awake.
--- Ashkuff | www.ashkuff.com | How to venture…"
Huon Wardle replied to holmes.tom's discussion Neanderthals Can Paint!"It is intriguing that this discovery comes on the heels of another, that many Europeans share DNA with Neanderthals. Little more than twenty years ago archeologists were still debating whether the Neanderthals could speak. Does a new sense of…"
holmes.tom posted a discussionNeanderthals Can Paint!
The oldest work of art ever": 42,000-year-old paintings of seals found in Spanish caveThe world's oldest works of art have been found in a cave on Spain's Costa del Sol, scientists believe.Six paintings of seals are at least 42,000 years old and are the only known artistic images created by Neanderthal man, experts…See More
holmes.tom replied to Achirri Ishmael's discussion In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound in the group Ethnographic Writing"Oh, man, I forgot about this. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, and I am a Vorticist. Even the Vorticist website says so: http://www.vorticism.co.uk/holmes/Here's my Vorticist book of poems:…"
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holmes.tom replied to Agustin Diz's discussion Deadly Reading List in the group Anthropology of Death"The two books I'm reading and that are quite good are:
Pettitt, Paul. The Paleolithic Origins of Human Burial. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Taylor, Timothy. The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
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holmes.tom left a comment for Keith Hart"Thank you, Keith. I look forward to using this site as I continue my research for poems about the Paleolithic era, artists, and people."
"Welcome to the OAC, Tom! Poetry and wine belong with anthropology, but the pros don't get it."
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Keith Hart said…
Welcome to the OAC, Tom! Poetry and wine belong with anthropology, but the pros don't get it.
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