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Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)
Nature ^
| 7-7-2004
| Michael Hopkins
Posted on 07/08/2004 11:27:07 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:27:07 AM PDT
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blam
To: FairOpinion
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:27:48 AM PDT
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:33:36 AM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well.....there you go again.")
To: blam
I worked with an engineer who looked exactly like the Neanderthals you see in the recreations of what they looked like. His brow, His teeth, hair,even the way he walked. Put a spear in his hand & you would have thought you were transported back in time.
His favorite hobby was carving beautiful chess sets out of stone.
They intermarried I believe, hogswash they died out
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:43:20 AM PDT
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underbyte
(Arrogance will drop your IQ 50 points)
To: blam
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:45:13 AM PDT
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EggsAckley
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
To: underbyte
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:50:26 AM PDT
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blam
To: EggsAckley
Hi Eggs, Is that a woven fabric on the head of the Venus Idol in post #5?
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:52:32 AM PDT
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blam
To: blam
As he and his colleagues report in this week's Nature1, the bones are only about 5,000 years old... Funny, I thought they were older.
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:56:26 AM PDT
by
SirChas
To: blam
I've always interpreted that to be the hair of the female subject. Never thought of it as a fabric. Hmmmmm.
It's the Venus of Willendorf, btw. I love it. I have a ceramic replica of it that is wonderful. And it's one of the few fragile things that survived our earthquake. It actually went flying and then ricocheted off of something, made a 90 degree turn, and ended up in the bathroom sink.
LOL!
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posted on
07/08/2004 11:57:20 AM PDT
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EggsAckley
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
To: EggsAckley
" Never thought of it as a fabric." I think I read something about the 'experts' arguing over that.
Lol, she's built to with-stand earthquakes.
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:00:10 PM PDT
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blam
To: EggsAckley
Whoa! Don't show that to Bill Clinton, he'll have a wardrobe malfunction...
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posted on
07/08/2004 12:00:52 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, thank a soldier.)
To: blam
.....brick ****house comes to mind. No wonder she ended up in the bathroom!
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07/08/2004 12:05:05 PM PDT
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EggsAckley
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
To: blam
I thought the latest thinking was the Neanderthals DID make/own/wear decorative items towards the end of their time on earth, but what was not clear was whether they were truly being "creative" or were merely aping their new Cro-Magnon neighbors without understanding what they were doing.
To: EggsAckley
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07/08/2004 12:05:22 PM PDT
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blam
To: EggsAckley
The fertility goddess harkens back to a time when women ruled their communities. And isn't that big gold lady a beaut?
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07/08/2004 12:08:17 PM PDT
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Ciexyz
("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
To: AppleButter
"I thought the latest thinking was the Neanderthals DID make/own/wear decorative items towards the end of their time on earth, but what was not clear was whether they were truly being "creative" or were merely aping their new Cro-Magnon neighbors without understanding what they were doing." Yup. That's about the last I've heard on this too.
Contempory studies have shown that brain size correlates with IQ. Cro-Magnon Man had a larger brain than present day humans...we're breeding down.(?)
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07/08/2004 12:09:08 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
Wow! Again you amaze me blam! Nice find; fascinating.
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07/08/2004 12:11:01 PM PDT
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EggsAckley
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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07/09/2004 7:18:51 PM PDT
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FairOpinion
(If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
To: blam
The horse pictured above is beautiful and, to me, shows a maked similatity to the art style of the caves -- 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. A golden age?
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07/09/2004 7:28:21 PM PDT
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JimSEA
( "More Bush, Less Taxes.")
To: blam
Interesting article;thanks for the link. :-)
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