I 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.
My cat is always nice to me. I understand these ancients.
Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
This used to be a comment about how all White Americans should protect Indian heritage. Which they of course should, but he also accused all White people of "ravaging" Indian sites etc.
European settlers trashed an entire continent in a few hundred years; stop and imagine what it must have looked like when they first arrived. How this ends up filed under Camel art is a mystery.
Even if that were 100% true, he was blaming all present day “White Americans”, none of whom were in any way involved.
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#53I was about to say they have a powerful imagination to see camels in that eroded rock... however after a quick search, there are better photos online: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-2-000-year-old-...
Also very short. Smaller than a human in height -
Re: Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
#54I was about to say they have a powerful imagination to see camels in that eroded rock... however after a quick search, there are better photos online: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-2-000-year-old-...
I wonder how many places have the geology for these massive stone walls that can be carved and ... folks saw it and thought "Man we should make this really big sculpture!".
My imagination makes me think that it's a pretty obvious thing to do for any number of reasons and that there have been quite a few that have been lost to time.
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#55I 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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#56location of site https://goo.gl/maps/gVb5wbKBn44CKdpX9
Thank you. That's got some much better photos. I have to say, I wasn't that convinced by the one used in the Smithsonian article.
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#57NYC 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 d…
Very few "White Americans" alive today have ravaged any American Indian sites. Even if you have the deranged notion that people should bear the responsibility for what their ancestors did hundreds of years ago, it's still just tiny fraction of current Americans that should be the target of your anger.
I understand where you're coming from, but in the interests of education it should be pointed out that a significant amount of destruction of native sites has occurred within "our" lifetimes. For instance, many suburbs in Chandler, AZ were directly built on bulldozed Hohokam pueblos in the 50s-80s. The power plant in Needles, CA was built over what was formerly the largest geoglyph in North America during the 70s, destroying most of the site. The wholesale looting of mimbres sites with heavy machinery mostly began in the 70s as well. The main reason this has slowed in recent years is that the looters have already gotten most of the obvious sites that aren't explicitly protected.
Most people aren't aware of how much destruction of archaeological heritage suburban development has entailed. A good percentage of Americans, especially those in the great lakes or Southwest regions, have used infrastructure built on native sites. It's pretty inescapable.
Re: Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
#58Once 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.
It's harder than it looks. My own photos of my sites/finds have rarely turned out interesting either. Usually things are simply an unremarkable pile of stones, unidentifiable blobs, or far too massive for the camera.
That's leaving aside the ethical issues with photographing funerary sites/remains, which most archaeologists avoid by simply not releasing any such photographs to the media.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Preposterous. Creativity has never been more unbounded and flourishing than it is now.
I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers. For these projects, you probably had a "visionary" but it's stated that the creations were likely a community effort and maintained over time.
> I'd agreed that's true for a small percentage of the population and that the rest are consumers.
That's as good as it's ever going to get. The rest will always be consumers.
Re: Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids
#60I was about to say they have a powerful imagination to see camels in that eroded rock... however after a quick search, there are better photos online: https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-2-000-year-old-...
I wonder how many places have the geology for these massive stone walls that can be carved and ... folks saw it and thought "Man we should make this really big sculpture!". My imagination makes me think that it's a pretty obvious thing to do for any number of reasons and that there have been quite a few that have been lost to time.
As evidenced by the amount of grafitti in public places, people just really like leaving their mark wherever they can. There's grafitti in ancient ruins that (aside from the language) could be mistaken for grafitti in a bathroom stall. People are just gonna people.