---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote :
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Painted caves challenge art origins http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29415716 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29415716 Painted caves challenge art origins http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29415716 The discovery of 40,000-year-old artworks in Indonesian caves challenges established views on the origins of humans' artistic capabilities. View on www.bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29415716 Preview by Yahoo Very cool. And also, every hand outlined was a left hand indicating the artist was right handed or, if there were more than one hand depicted, many of the artists were right handed. Some things don't change. Well spotted, I wonder when that arose in humanity, and why? Ice age art is my favourite thing, I went to a show at the British Museum called "The arrival of the modern mind" because all the works there showed that our distant ancestors had the same capacity for mental abstraction, metaphor and representation. It's like the complexity of modern art appeared fully formed one day and we just set about painting. I posted this the other day, it really is well worth a look if you like this sort of thing: Cave_of_forgotten_dreams http://vimeo.com/32371643 http://vimeo.com/32371643 Cave_of_forgotten_dreams http://vimeo.com/32371643 Prepare to be shocked. 30,000 years old art. View on vimeo.com http://vimeo.com/32371643 Preview by Yahoo There are odd things here though, the fact the cave was in use for 20,000 years makes me wonder why there are so few pictures on the walls, in one place you see a row of galloping horses and some of them were painted many thousands of years apart. That's like the people who built Stonehenge putting the stones up and leaving it for all that time and then me going along and finishing it yesterday. Why did they go in so infrequently? They obviously didn't live in the cave, did so many generations really pass before another painting was done? So many questions, and we can only guess at the answers.
