texascavers Digest 30 Jan 2014 17:40:36 - Issue 1922
Topics (messages 23347 through 23353):
Lascaux Cave exhibit in Houston highly recommended
23347 by: Speleosteele.aol.com
Qesem Cave
23348 by: David
23349 by: Geary Schindel
Lava cave related
23350 by: David
OK, who took it?!
23351 by: Louise Power
Re: [greater_houston_grotto] Fwd: WNS Spreads into Arkansas
23352 by: Julia Germany
Calling all old ASS!
23353 by: Chase, Allison Christine
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Hello, fellow Texas cavers,
Last Saturday Diana Tomchick, Roger and Candice Moore, and I enjoyed the
Lascaux Cave exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural History. My advice is
to not miss this wonderful opportunity.
http://www.hmns.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=651Itemid=
683
Lascaux Cave has been called the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory. It's
utterly astounding how well done these 19,000 year old paintings are.
The exhibit will be in Houston until March 23rd. I may go again before it
leaves.
Good cavin',
Bill Steele
Additional related links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMeMCkk2Ho
http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/441789672/Scenes_from_the_Stone_Age_Th
e_Cave_Paintings_of_Lascaux_
https://www.google.com/search?q=lascaux+cave+houstontbm=ischtbo=usource=u
nivsa=Xei=qm3oUrnCEsP_kAfJxYHICgved=0CFkQsAQbiw=1335bih=578---End Message---
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There is a story in the news this week about an archealogical dig in
Israel.
These researcher's theory is that this spot proves humans cooked meats
as far back as 300,000 years ago.
This is interesting for several reasons.
To me, the fact that we have a spot in a cave where something like
21,478 generations ago, my ancestors might have been in this cave sitting
there roasting a pig, celebrating the solistice or the birth of a new baby, or
something fun, is an exciting image to picture.I wonder what there names
were, and how many of them sat around the fire, and how cold was it and
were they happy or frightened. Was there danger lurking outside the cave
such as large predators or war, or ghetto neighbors l like the ones that live
next door to me.Imagine living your whole life near that cave,
never having to
have used your brain to calculate your taxes or to watch tv, or living
in a world
where the nearby population was probably only in the thousands, if not the
hundreds. I am guessing their total vocabulary was only a few thousand words
to memorize, and since they didn't have to memorize anything, their brains were
free to daydream and count the millions of stars in the sky.
I wonder if anyone is still related to these cave dwellers, or did their lineage
become extinct ?
My feeling is they spent a lot of time pondering whether the chicken came
before the egg, or why the sun and moon are round, and other natural questions
that we too talk about while sitting around the campfire. Surely,
they had some
kind of humor and told jokes, and sang songs and beat on something with sticks
to make percussion sounds. I bet the old timers would say, back
in the good
ole days, we didn't have a wheel, you younguns got it made, etc.
David Locklear
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David,
In our hectic lives, we sometimes forget to stop and think about how life might
have been and to ponder these questions.
Early man was free to roam and to wonder of the magic of nature - with an
entire planet to explore.
Well said.
Geary
-Original Message-
From: David [mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:59 AM
To: CaveTex
Subject: [Texascavers] Qesem Cave
There is a story in the news this week about an archealogical dig in Israel.
These researcher's theory is that this spot proves humans cooked meats as far
back as 300,000 years ago.
This is interesting for several reasons.
To me, the fact that we have a spot in a cave where something like
21,478 generations ago, my ancestors might have been in this cave sitting there
roasting a pig, celebrating the solistice or the birth of a new baby, or
something fun, is an exciting image to picture.I wonder what there names
were, and how many of them sat around the fire, and how cold was it and
were they happy or frightened. Was there danger lurking outside the cave
such as large predators or war, or ghetto neighbors l like the ones that live
next door to me.Imagine living your whole life near that cave,
never having to
have used your brain to calculate your taxes or to watch tv, or living in a
world where the nearby population was probably only in the