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Do you know of any pictures we can see?

here is a few examples from a number of caves.

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I read somewhere that evidence had been discovered that there were specialist artists who travelled from tribe to tribe doing these paintings for a fee . I will try to re-locate that info .

specialist artists that is so cool. they must have had enough food to fee the artist and some way to pay for his skills? A complex society at its roots.

I haven't been able to locate the article about professional cave artists , but in looking for it , I ran across this , which I find very interesting view link

pardon this that was a frigging great article. I saw a coy of this cave painting, southen spain. A woman in one hand is holding a horn from some animal her other hand is on her stomach looking quite pregnant standing under what lloked like the moon.
i asked what is it about the moon & fertility?, when did people pick that idea up?

Dirck: That link was most interesting, especially with the photos. Having a scientific background plus investigative experience of incidences subject potentially to judicial review, I, for one, try to keep an open mind and hear all sides of an issue before reaching a conclusion. Often enough, I've had to hear or read far-fetched or overly conservative opinions that had poor logical backup or reflected just a very closed mind. So, while open to new developments, I gingerly tread on these until further evidence crops up. E.g. there was a Discovery Channel program some years back that, through cave discoveries of skeletons and drawings, pointed to the possibilty of some Negroid aborigines reaching Brazil from Australasia over 40,000 yrs. ago, well before the Beringia Siberian immigrants, but being nearly driven out by the latter southward towards Tierra de Fuego where only a few inter-mixed remnants remained. Though repeated on TV, the last I heard was that the C14 readings were off by many yrs. but the fact remained: what of the forensic evidence of the skeletons? As I once mentioned, the original "Planet of the Apes" reflected well what the attitudes of people could be when faced with startingly new discoveries.

The following are links on the Brazil issue above, the last one or two being more reflective of the Discovery program:

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I will try to look up more info on the migration route pacific to samerics I find this most interesting. The map showing Berengia i have seen befre and always mkes m check te term land bridge as something 250 miles wife. (wide enough for east west traffic?)