Prehistoric Images and Medicines Under the Sea in Cosquer Cave

https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/cosquer/

by saturn5k • 3 years ago

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saturn5k• 3 years ago

Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosquer_Cave

defrost• 3 years ago

It's interesting to see how Joseph Bradshaw's name and his exposure of the Gwion Gwion rock paintings to Europeans has now morphed into a global foundation funded by Oklahoma oil and gas money.

RIP David M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bradshaw_(pastoralist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwion_Gwion_rock_paintings

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=HE010

https://www.magabala.com/products/yorro-yorro

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung5• 3 years ago

Climate change did this.

https://metrocosm.com/timelapse-evolution-of-earths-surface/

Hasn't the planet suffered enough?

marmetio3• 3 years ago

flooding that occurred when the seas rose after the end of the last glaciation

The planet did this one to itself.

senectus12• 3 years ago

The Cosquer Cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France, near Cap Morgiou. The entrance to the cave is located 37 m (121 ft) underwater, due to the Holocene sea level rise.

Yup... we cant blame big coal/oil on this one.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung5• 3 years ago

Through climate change!

LargoLasskhyfv2• 3 years ago

Interesting. But what about the 'Medicines'? Didn't find any about that.

DoreenMichele• 3 years ago

I don't know. I read it for that reason and was also disappointed, but perhaps they mean this passage:

Now, we know that the phenomenon was far more widely represented than had been thought. The now established fact that roughly at the same time such hand stencils were being made in sites hundreds of miles apart should deal a death blow to the theory of pathologic mutilations: how likely would it be that human groups living at such distances from one another should independently develop the same crippling diseases and should react in the same way by immortalizing them on the walls of the caves by means of the same techniques?

Though I don't necessarily agree with their conclusion. I have heard that most frogs and such missing a limb in areas where scientists track such because they are concerned about mutations in reaction to radiation simply lost it when something tried to eat them and they escaped.

I wonder if primitive peoples fairly often suffer injuries and lose parts of fingers.

Edit: The piece strikes me as possibly originally written in French and translated. Perhaps the title is a poor translation?

LargoLasskhyfv2• 3 years ago

Maybe it's context dependent? Some specific lingo for a field of research. More (culture)anthropological, symbolic, than our common use for a medication.

However, I've read that three times and didn't get it.

But interesting nonetheless, the rest of it, I mean.

irrational• 3 years ago

Since people tend to live near the coastal regions, so many artifacts must have been lost all over the world when the sea levels rose. I do wonder if there might be other caves that still have pockets above the water level.

macrael• 3 years ago

Is there a link to a complete list of images of the paintings? This site only has a few dozen.

etothepii• 3 years ago

Is it common for there to be no canines? I thought humans were in with dogs by this period, perhaps the lack of human pictures and dog pictures is correlated.

Prehistoric Images and Medicines Under the Sea in Cosquer Cave

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