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“Leroi-Gourhan écrit que, dans l'art des cavernes, signe féminin et blessure sont interchangeables : pour signifier la même idée, l'artiste, le penseur, l'écrivain paléolithique pouvait indifféremment figurer une vulve, une vache transpercée, le sang qui dégoutte d'une flèche. La vulve, le dol, la bête sous le merlin, le sang, sont synonymes ("Corps du roi", 40).”

Blood Archaeology Prehistory Paleolithic Prehistoric Art

Author:Andreï Makine

“Research from Baton and Konner in 1985 and Cordain et al. in 2000 estimated that about 65 per cent of the diets of pre-agricultural Palaeolithic humans may still have come from plants – far more than only your recommended five fruit and veg a day, I would say. Interestingly, anatomically modern humans are believed to have more copies of the starch-digesting genes than the Neanderthals and the Denisovans (another extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle palaeolithic), suggesting that the ability to digest starch has been a continuous driver through human evolution as much as walking upright, having big brains and articulate speech - perhaps being a baker may be the oldest profession after all.”

Homo Sapiens Vegan Quotes Human Evolution Plant Based Diet Paleo Diet Paleolithic Omnivores

Book:Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World

Source: Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World

“in case we ever lose each other always remember this our sign and i will find you again as i go to find my brother' the painter promises”

Painting Coming Of Age Free Verse Cave Paleolithic

Book:The Little Boy and the Painter

Source: The Little Boy and the Painter

“i painted it because i dreamed it because we all dreamed it”

Painting Painter Free Verse Paleolithic Cave Art

Book:The Little Boy and the Painter

Source: The Little Boy and the Painter

“why do you paint in the dark' i ask him and he looks not at me but away 'because i cannot bear my own darkness in the light' he is quiet for some time 'but inwardly i am told where there is paint to be and i paint it there in the dark so none can see myself truly burning in the sun”

Painting Painter Free Verse Paleolithic Cave Art

Book:The Little Boy and the Painter

Source: The Little Boy and the Painter

“finally he speaks 'if you come into my cave, child you will not come out again unchanged' his hands gesture beyond him trying vainly to describe something greater than him 'if you come into this deep cave, down halls few feet have ever trod, you will not be you again you will be another you, a newer you a blinded yet unblinded being, footsteps following the footsteps of those who have painted here before will you come?”

Painting Cave Dramatic Moment Paleolithic

Book:The Little Boy and the Painter

Source: The Little Boy and the Painter

“So not only was this curious bracelet [found at the Denisova cave] unequivocally the work of anatomically archaic human beings--the Denisovans-- but also it testified to their mastery of advanced manufacturing techniques in the Upper Paleolithic, many millennia ahead of the earliest use of these techniques in the Neolithic by our own supposedly "advanced" species, Homo sapiens. Also made crystal clear was the realization that the Denisovans must have possessed the same kinds of artistic sensibility and self-awareness that we habitually associate only with our own kind--for there can be no doubt that very real, conscious, aware, and unmistakably human beings had interacted with this bracelet at every stage of its conception, design, and manufacture, all the way through to its end use.”

Art Self Awareness Intelligence Mastery Paleolithic Neolithic Denisovans

Book:America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Source: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization