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Deciphering a Neanderthal cave painting

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    Deciphering a Neanderthal cave painting

    Reading an interesting article on Neanderthal cave art, one of NickFitz's links today:

    2018-02-22 How we discovered that Neanderthals could make art

    and was trying to work out what the following painting represented:



    Fairly obviously the dots represent a herd of bison or similar, moving in a long narrow formation.

    The kink half-way down the herd is presumably the result of some diversion caused by the hunters, to crowd and confuse the herd in the middle so they slow down.

    The "ladder" which the article refers to is just a more symbolic representation of the herd, showing three "zones": the square containing the rear of an animal represents the back of the herd, and the lowest box, containing an animal's front denotes the front of the herd.

    The strange figure on the right of the ladder is half-way down the herd, and I reckon is supposed to represent a hunter or group of them waving firebrands to spook the herd into veering sideways (i.e. the kink in the top diagram).

    Sound plausible?
    Last edited by OwlHoot; 5 March 2018, 16:57.
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    #2
    Fan assisted oven.
    Roast Beef in the main oven, Pork in the grill.
    The wavey line is aroma mmmmmmmm.

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      #3
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
      Deciphering a Neanderthal cave painting
      One of your own works, is it?
      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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        #4
        Originally posted by RSoles View Post
        Fan assisted oven.
        Roast Beef in the main oven, Pork in the grill.
        The wavey line is aroma mmmmmmmm.
        funny as f--- !

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          #5
          Originally posted by RSoles View Post
          Fan assisted oven.
          Roast Beef in the main oven, Pork in the grill.
          The wavey line is aroma mmmmmmmm.
          So a Neanderthal Bisto advert then?
          Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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            #6
            Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
            One of your own works, is it?
            Come on - he's not that artistic.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7
              Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
              Come on - he's not that artistic.
              its male bison so full of Bull?
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #8
                Hmm, well the oven reply was quite funny. But I'm quite disappointed nobody has suggested any serious alternative explanations for the weird figure on the right, and for the blob at the base.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                  the weird figure on the right,
                  Looks like Little Nellie to me.
                  …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                    #10
                    was the painting signed by a <b-word>eer?

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