Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
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#2I find it amazing that early humans tended to make art of animals not humans. Like the cave paintings in France. It seems that early humans put the animals front and Center at some point.
Re: Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
#3I find it amazing that early humans tended to make art of animals not humans. Like the cave paintings in France. It seems that early humans put the animals front and Center at some point.
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#4I find it amazing that early humans tended to make art of animals not humans. Like the cave paintings in France. It seems that early humans put the animals front and Center at some point.
They had more impact on human lives.
Hunter-gatherer groups tend to be small and disparate. They don’t really have much impact on each other.
But they deal with animals, on a daily.
It’s not just primitive societies, either. Modern tribal groups tend to concentrate on animals and crops.
When your very survival depends on knowing as much as possible about prey and draft animals, weather, etc., these topics occupy your attention.
When they depicted other humans, it was often about conflict.
We may think of these as “quaint” beliefs, but these folks took this stuff seriously. Their survival depended on it.
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#5Once again, an article all about something visual with neigh a proper visualisation in it, let alone a photo of a greater scope, and no original design trace out proposal or recreation. Both of the provided examples essentially look like weather-exposed rocks.
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#6Once again, an article all about something visual with neigh a proper visualisation in it, let alone a photo of a greater scope, and no original design trace out proposal or recreation. Both of the provided examples essentially look like weather-exposed rocks.
The NYT article they link to in the first paragraph does a good job providing that exact thing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/camels-sculptures...
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#7The linked initial (2018) find article has more convincing photos, in my opinion: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/camels-sculptures...
Submission from the time, not really discussed (just to save you the search): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16391610
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#8The paper isn't on Sci-Hub yet... Does anyone have access?
Re: Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
#9Once again, an article all about something visual with neigh a proper visualisation in it, let alone a photo of a greater scope, and no original design trace out proposal or recreation. Both of the provided examples essentially look like weather-exposed rocks.
This seems really standard for any archeological article, sadly. Every time with the bait.
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#10NYC should contact a Rat Terrier Club in the area. I believe only a couple of these dogs were bought by and ' employed' by those in charge of the stores of grain in Egypt. ( They had reached the maximum amount of 'poison' that they had been using on the grain.) Within days, they had it cleared out of rats. As the terriers spent their off time with their handlers and families, very soon those neighborhoods were also devoid of rats. As an aside, the dogs were taught not to eat their prey, thus safeguarding them from contracting whatever disease the rats may have been carrying.