* I’ve written before of my favourite cave art theory, but there are certainly no shortage of them, as this article outlines – and with new discoveries coming all of the time, there’s only one certainty, there’ll be more.
One thought that struck me: “Paleolithic artists transmitting their techniques from generation to generation for twenty-five millennia with almost no innovation or revolt…For the conventions of cave painting to have endured four times as long as recorded history, the culture it served, he concludes, must have been “deeply satisfying”—and stable to a degree it is hard for modern humans to imagine.”
* The idea of the Christian resurrection wasn’t original – well so few ideas are really. But I foresee “just like the Da Vinci code” related novels in about eight months….
* The Lupa Capitolina is about 1,000 years too young – proving that romanticism thrived in the 13th century.
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