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Mary Holstege (mathling@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:06:09 JST Mary Holstege

Apropos https://mastodon.social/@futurebird@sauropods.win/113537840203964375
Just last month we were on a trip to the south of France and got to see the inside of several caves, including Lascaux (well, Lascaux IV, a high-quality reproduction of the actual cave), Peche Merle, and Rouffignac. We saw many fine cattle, horses, deer, and ibex.
Here are some:
#caveart
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1. Picture of some cave art: there is a large black cow head to the left, with dapples, some small red and black antlered deer underneath, along with a small black running horse, a faded goat/ibex on the right, and a very faded red body above.
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  OK one more musing about human pre-history. We have many cave paintings from all around the world and they almost always show animals, the accuracy and beauty of these drawings of the fauna are such that we can tell the sex, age and exact species in many cases. There is a wall of animal footprints carved in stone and you can tell the age and sex of the animals *from the prints* our ancestors knew the natural world intimately and made careful records of this knowledge. 1/

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