Mammoth image discovered at Baga-Oygur III in early 2000s. Picture: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Posted on 04/30/2020 6:52:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A new study by Russian and French researchers found new petroglyphs which helped the answer this conundrum.
For example, at Baga-Oygur II was found the image of a long-gone woolly rhino.
Most of the image is lost due to a rock slicing, but the animal is quite recognisable with an elongated, squat torso, short powerful legs, a characteristic tail, and an elongated muzzle with exaggeratedly enlarged two horns.
This was useful because these animals - like mammoths - became extinct around 15,000 years ago in this region, making the drawings the work of Palaeolithic artists...
The scientists also concluded that the artists worked with stone implements, and not metal.
They also noted a 'desert varnish' on the stones - a dark crust which forms on the stones in dry conditions, suggesting a greater age than earlier assumptions of between 8,000 and 10,000 years old.
Stylistic similarities between the Mongolian and Siberian petroglyphs further indicated the Ukok drawings to be woolly mammoths.
They made their petroglyphs in the so-called Kalgutinsky style.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
Ok gentlemen, gather round.
This is our target for this hunt.
Here, here and here are weak points where your spears will do most harm to this target.
We’re gonna go at it from this side (rear). Not this side (front).
Wrap around it to the sides. Stay away from this big whacker on its face. It can grab you and hold you for some stomping.
We leave when the sun is one finger’s width on the horizon.
That is all.
See Kipling poem - In the Neolithic Age
lol
That’s the point where I would think of the size of the animal and the size of us...and disappear from the meeting :)
depicted by our ancestors 15,000 years ago’....
My great great great great........Uncle Vinny?
He would have just whacked it with a revolver.
And people think the concept of PowerPoint briefings is a modern thing.
smh.
The Corona hits animals too.
Did they find any pictures of George S0r0s? ...of DiFi? Joe Biden?
lol
I wonder if the guy was nervous before he gave the presentation :)
Pretty sure that is was a Public Service announcement (PSA)...do not eat dogs with snot pouring out it’s nose.
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Art gallery? I didn’t know they had wine and cheese back then.
I think I went to school with Art, and his oddly named sister Bertanellie.
Rudyard Kipling
In the Neolithic Age
1895
In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses’ pelt.
I was singer to my clan in that dim, red Dawn of Man, And I sang of all we fought and feared and felt.
Yea, I sang as now I sing, when the Prehistoric spring Made the piled Biscayan ice-pack split and shove;
And the troll and gnome and dwerg, and the Gods of Cliff and Berg Were about me and beneath me and above.
But a rival, of Solutre, told the tribe my style was outre— ‘Neath a tomahawk, of diorite, he fell
And I left my views on Art, barbed and tanged, below the heart Of a mammothistic etcher at Grenelle.
Then I stripped them, scalp from skull, and my hunting-dogs fed full, And their teeth I threaded neatly on a thong;
And I wiped my mouth and said, “It is well that they are dead, For I know my work is right and theirs was wrong.”
But my Totem saw the shame; from his ridgepole-shrine he came, And he told me in a vision of the night: —
“There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, “And every single one of them is right!”
. . . . . . .
Then the silence closed upon me till They put new clothing on me Of whiter, weaker flesh and bone more frail; .
And I stepped beneath Time’s finger, once again a tribal singer, And a minor poet certified by Traill!
Still they skirmish to and fro, men my messmates on the snow When we headed off the aurochs turn for turn;
When the rich Allobrogenses never kept amanuenses, And our only plots were piled in lakes at Berne.
Still a cultured Christian age sees us scuffle, squeak, and rage, Still we pinch and slap and jabber, scratch and dirk;
Still we let our business slide—as we dropped the half-dressed hide— To show a fellow-savage how to work.
Still the world is wondrous large,—seven seas from marge to marge— And it holds a vast of various kinds of man;
And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban.
Here’s my wisdom for your use, as I learned it when the moose And the reindeer roamed where Paris roars to-night:—
“There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, “And—every—single—one—of—them—is—right!”
A favorite poem of mine.
I’d nev er read it.
Glad you referenced it.
I like all of Kipling’s work.
Excellent TV show on cave artwork around the world on today. Of course we have to ignore it because it is on the Ancient Aliens show and its speculation that the eerily similar depictions of creatures that look suspiciously like Ancient Astronauts in space suits or the “Grays”
Found in caves all over the world.
Question: If they could paint the animals so well as to be instantly recognizable, why would the humanoid figures be so botched as to look like space aliens?
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