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• negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve known about Chauvet cave for years, and I’m still in awe every time I see a picture of it. To think most images in this cave are around 35,000 years old. Human history (written history) is maybe 6,000 years old. This is more than 5 times older than that. Humans existed, and were creating things like this, for 30,000 years before the written word.

  Pablo Picasso visited the Lascaux Cave (also in France, but much younger), and said the following:

  “We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.”
  ― Pablo Picasso

  I linked this above, but check out Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary on this cave.

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  • MrShankles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.”
    ― Pablo Picasso

    That’s an almost perfect way to describe how it makes me feel — though that statement’s a little more profound than just ‘awesome’ lol

    I’m absolutely going to check-out all the info you linked, and thank you. I just got off work this morning and will undoubtedly end up going through it… cause it’s still blowing my tiny little brain a bit someway. One of the coolest things I’ve learned in a while

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