Paint moves back to 100,000 year ago.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:35 pm

WOW!

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A paper to be published tomorrow in Science by C.S. Henshilwood and colleagues reports the discovery of a 100,000 year old paint-making shop in a cave in South Africa. They found two abalone shells which had held a mixture of red ocher, animal marrow, and other ingredients, alongside stones and bones apparently used in mixing and perhaps applying the reddish paint.

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Post by **Jason** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:43 pm

Neato. I've always liked the paintings at Trois-Frères for their significance in how shamanism evolved into proto-religion. The connection between art and 'spirituality' (for want of a better term) has always fascinated me - Trois-Frères being an example of animism.

I hope they find some cave paintings to go with that paint shop.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:56 pm

PordFrefect wrote:Neato. I've always liked the paintings at Trois-Frères for their significance in how shamanism evolved into proto-religion. The connection between art and 'spirituality' (for want of a better term) has always fascinated me - Trois-Frères being an example of animism.

I hope they find some cave paintings to go with that paint shop.

It wasn't a 'shop.

Post by **Berthold** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:11 pm

PordFrefect wrote:I hope they find some cave paintings to go with that paint shop.

The most ancient use may well have been body painting.

Post by **JacksSmirkingRevenge** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:18 pm

PordFrefect wrote:Neato. I've always liked the paintings at Trois-Frères for their significance in how shamanism evolved into proto-religion. The connection between art and 'spirituality' (for want of a better term) has always fascinated me - Trois-Frères being an example of animism.

I hope they find some cave paintings to go with that paint shop.

Trois-Frères, Altamira, Lascaux...I'd love to be able to visit any one of them.
I remember reading that in one cave (I can't remember where) somebody discovered a 1 metre long clay statue of a bison(?) and nearby was a pit where the clay was excavated with children's footprints still clearly impressed in it.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:12 pm

That was my "work room". Sorry about that.

Post by **JacksSmirkingRevenge** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:00 am

Edit - Sorry, make that two clay bison.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:13 pm

Them's cool! Imagine sitting through a winter night in a freaking cave, wondering if the sun will ever be warm again. There's some clay available and you start to fiddle with it. A few hours later you're enthralled, caught up in the moment as you try to tease a beast out of the clay for the first time in history.

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