These Cave Art Fragments Could Be Proof of Humans Doing Astronomy 17,000 Years Ago
A scene painted on a cave wall more than 15,000 thousand years ago appears to tell the simple story of a hunter collapsing before a disembowelled beast. Reading between the lines, the images might describe something bigger. Maybe even astronomical.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
These Cave Art Fragments Could Be Proof of Humans Doing Astronomy 17,000 Years AgoA scene painted on a cave wall more than 15,000 thousand years ago appears to tell the simple story of a hunter collapsing before a disembowelled beast. Reading between the lines, the images might describe something bigger. Maybe even astronomical.
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Why are some people always trying to interpret ancient art as astronomy?
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
These Cave Art Fragments Could Be Proof of Humans Doing Astronomy 17,000 Years AgoA scene painted on a cave wall more than 15,000 thousand years ago appears to tell the simple story of a hunter collapsing before a disembowelled beast. Reading between the lines, the images might describe something bigger. Maybe even astronomical.
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Why are some people always trying to interpret ancient art as astronomy?
The stars were there before us.
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
These Cave Art Fragments Could Be Proof of Humans Doing Astronomy 17,000 Years AgoA scene painted on a cave wall more than 15,000 thousand years ago appears to tell the simple story of a hunter collapsing before a disembowelled beast. Reading between the lines, the images might describe something bigger. Maybe even astronomical.
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Why are some people always trying to interpret ancient art as astronomy?
It’s the way of the world now Moll.
So the fires in central Queensland have destroyed a lot of cane fields, apparently.
mollwollfumble said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
These Cave Art Fragments Could Be Proof of Humans Doing Astronomy 17,000 Years AgoA scene painted on a cave wall more than 15,000 thousand years ago appears to tell the simple story of a hunter collapsing before a disembowelled beast. Reading between the lines, the images might describe something bigger. Maybe even astronomical.
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Why are some people always trying to interpret ancient art as astronomy?
There are lots of very old stone structures with an astronomical connection. It seems reasonable to suppose these would have been preceded by astronomical cave art.