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Hey Mahogan, thanks for your reply. I have studied Jean Clottes Report on Chauvet Cave in France. The images are believed according to carbon dating to be between thirty to thirtytwo thousand years old. However, I believe that there are still sites of huge interest in that cave that seem to...

Dear Susma, thank you for your reply. I am not sure how much I can help you. Let me point out that to me civilisation is not so much an achievement as it is a phenomenon that occurs when many people live together. There are many reasons why at certain times and places many people manage to live...

ancient culture Hi Brian, there is an important difference between culture and civilisation. Culture is an exchange that occurs between different entities which provides value respectively to such entities. Usually such entities mark different species or different cultures but they may also...

antiquity of culture Hi Brian, thanks for the links. There was a very interesting program on on BBC (a few years back) suggesting quite plausibly that any ancient human civilisation dating to the ice age would have had its cultural centres near the sea and that such sites would now be far...

Chauvet Hey Todd! Good to hear from you. The book you want to look at is by Jean Clottes and is called 'Return to Chauvet Cave'. There are other images of interest in that book! One sign, described as an insect, looks to me like a ribcage. It has six ribs each side, the sternum is clearly...

anti-neanderthal I think Neanderthal was a culture not a species. There are in my opinion sufficient arguments to support the idea that human culture shapes the morphology of species not least it's own without corrupting DNA compatibility. The main argument for a Neanderthal species is...

tau at Chauvet Hi Todd, there is a Tau in Chauvet Cave on a stalagmite painted in red, below a sign that I identify as a "womb" sign. It is a red sign that follows the outline of the upper part of the pelvis and shows an extension in the anatomical position of the vagina. There is a red double...