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Were the First Artists Mostly Women?
National Geographic ^ | October 8, 2013 | Virginia Hughes

Posted on 10/11/2013 4:34:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
The new study doesn't discount the shaman theory, Whitley added, because in some hunter-gatherer societies shamans are female or even transgendered.

What dreck! Educated idiots make me want to puke. Did these fools consult the fossil evidence to determine the statistical distribution of ring finger length between localized groups or between genders? If they are foolish enough to compare modern statistical placement did they adjust the results by the percentage of males that have short fingers and women that have extended ring fingers?

A survey any night among patrons at the local tavern or any day around the water cooler at work will find these people getting teased for being statistical anomalies or for possibly playing for the wrong team.

As a final note, where did those freaky guys get their implants and hormone shots 20,000 years ago?

21 posted on 10/11/2013 7:00:28 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe they were trying to decide what color to paint the inside of the cave. (They never did make up their minds).


22 posted on 10/11/2013 7:11:37 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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That would explain the girlish hand prints
23 posted on 10/11/2013 7:22:27 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Ditter
If I had been there I would have been drawing on the walls of the cave and I am female!

As would have I! And my daughter. But not my son. I don't think this theory is too much of a stretch. Just take a walk through your local Hobby Lobby and see toward whom most of the merch is aimed. Girls are crafty.

As a little girl I would spend hours and hours drawing and coloring...wait for it...HORSES! Who doesn't know of at least one or two little girls who has gone through an obsessive horse drawing phase of life? Not to mention kitties and doggies, etc. I'm telling you it's as much a compulsion for girls as trucks or banging things with sticks are for boys. And since the girls and women were pretty much holed up in those caves for months I would not be the least bit surprised if they filled them up with pretty animals (and fantastical pictorial descriptions of brave hunters among them..think prehistoric Tiger Beat! Ha! Or maybe the hunting scenes happened when a pesky brother or bully kid wanted to make a girl cry, so he "shot" the pretty animals with a crappy stick figure hunter.)

What? "It could happen!"

24 posted on 10/11/2013 8:12:32 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

I didn’t have cave walls to draw on when I was a kid, I used the side of the garage. LOL!

I am an artist now, are you? I paint animal portraits. :)


25 posted on 10/12/2013 6:26:45 AM PDT by Ditter
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The handprints are of teen boys, getting initiated into the prehistoric hunting cults.

26 posted on 10/12/2013 11:09:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

Well, yes...and a few gurly men and boys.

27 posted on 10/12/2013 11:12:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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How many of the stencils are multiple products of the same person?


28 posted on 10/12/2013 10:44:19 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Ditter

Me, I’m a graphic designer who has worked mainly in museum/aquarium settings. Lots of large graphic panels and...HUGE WALL MURALS. LOL!

And, when I was little my sister and I drew all over the walls of our basement play area. ;)


29 posted on 10/13/2013 8:54:53 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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