“All #digital #communication is reverting back to primitive ways. The #emoji is like the #hieroglyphic. The #meme is akin to the #cavepainting. The #textmessage is a throwback to the #telegraph.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
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#CavePainting
Ancient Art of Tassili n’Ajjer: 12,000-Year-Old Window into Sahara’s Past
Discover the ancient cave paintings of Tassili n’Ajjer in Algeria’s Sahara Desert, a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring over 15,000 prehistoric artworks. These stunning engravings and drawings, dating back 12,000 years, reveal insights into early human life, climate change, and the region’s once-lush environment. Explore this lunar-like landscape of sandstone formations and humanity’s enduring creativity.
На этом фото - женщина, рожающая ребёнка вперед ногами. Считалось, что такие дети наделены особыми способностями (со слов гида)
20.12.2024
#bolivia #sucre #incamachay #pinturasrupestres #cavepainting #cavepaintings
̶И̶н̶д̶и̶а̶н̶а̶ ̶Д̶ж̶о̶н̶с̶Иван и тайна наскальных рисунков Incamachay.
Во многих местах пишут о датировке в несколько тысяч лет, и гид уверенно называл эту цифру. Но SIARB(Sociedad de Investigacion de Arte Rupestre en Bolivia) пишет, что датировка неизвестна.
На последнем фото - женщина, рожающая ребёнка вперед ногами. Считалось, что такие дети наделены особыми способностями (со слов гида)
20.12.2024
#bolivia #sucre #incamachay #pinturasrupestres #cavepainting #cavepaintings
#paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger's 12-min #TEDtalk journeys deep into #ancient #caves to glimpse the #origins of #human #consciousness & #culture. The #artworks she studies #communicate eloquently to us, across tens of thousands of years, across #eons.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg 2015 Dec 18
🔗 https://TED.com/speakers/genevieve_von_petzinger … #GenevieveVonPetzinger
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoanthropology … #Paleoanthropology
#Time #Timelessness #TimeTravel #rockart #cavepainting #prehistory #language #Kronodon
This flaking red-coloured #CavePainting of three people around a big pig discovered in #Indonesia might be the oldest #narrative artwork humans created, about 51,000 years ago as a new study suggests:
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-world-oldest-artwork-indonesian-cave.html
The world's oldest cave paintings are in Indonesia, and the oldest is 51,200 years old. (The runner-up, 6 miles away, is 45,500 years old.)
#archaeology #anthropology #Indonesia #CavePainting #science #EarlyHumans
It may not look like much – just a flaking image of three people around a big red pig.
But the humble #CavePainting discovered in #Indonesia is the oldest known narrative artwork ever made by human hands, dating back more than 51,000 years, new research said on July 3. #Archeology #Art
World’s oldest #Artwork discovered in Indonesian cave
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/worlds-oldest-artwork-discovered-in-indonesian-cave
World’s oldest cave painting scene found in Indonesia, scientists say - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/OXluq
Altamira is a Paleolithic cave located in Santillana del Mar (Cantabria region) in northern Spain, containing prehistoric paintings. https://www.worldhistory.org/Altamira/ #History #Altamira #CaveArt #CavePainting
Cave Doodle 20230311. Marker on card. Sat in a pub doing some drawing. #negativespace #drawing #cavepainting
#Mystery of #CavePainting #symbols solved
https://www.dw.com/en/mystery-of-cave-painting-symbols-solved/video-64485159
"European hunter-gatherers painted cave walls for tens of thousands of years. Some of those pictures are marked with #symbols. Their meaning was a mystery until a researcher recently figured out how they formed a lunar #calendar."
@blackstockart @hyperallergic thank you for sharing that. Gotta love #mastodon. Something so new and interesting every time I open it up. Yesterday I read about Frederic #bourdin (the chameleon fraud) in the #newyorker. Day before read about #cavepainting discovery and today #Buddist statuary. #mastodonmigration #information #interestingstuff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799
This is awesome. 'Guy off the street' in London collaborates with Professors at two universities to decode the dot marks on prehistoric cave paintings.
You couldn't make this up 😁
World's oldest Animation
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-oldest-animations-stretch-all-the-way-back-to-cave-times
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