And no doubt he also was satisfied with his shaving gear

...rudimentary as it must have been.
http://www.theonion.com/article/archaeol...appy-55592

I love the Onion!

Wonder if he was married

My screwed up computer wont open the article. I will comment, as archaeology is my academic and onetime vocation. there is this image of ancient peoples hirsute and unwashed.
Not true! Our greastest adaptaion I argue is not walking upright, and people are losing that ability each generation or the opposable thumb I got laughed at for postulating was for making a fist. It was the reduction in body hair allowing us to pursue game without overheating until that paleo diet collapsed in prostration by clan mcdonalds cave for an easy kill. Neanderthalers were ancient rodeo cowboys. A physical anthropologist discovered both groups share the same traumatic injuries from close encounters with large mammals. Which group had a higher IQ I leave to others.
But the most ancient known human rock art in Africa and SouthernFrance/Northern Spain say different. Lascaux with it's magnificient bulls had the original cave floor leveled for access by some french tourist official who's descendants probably work at euro Disney today. There WERE hundreds of engraved 'photos' destroyed with only a few surviving.
The portraits were of people very much like Van Gogh's POTATO EATERS; upturned noses, close fitting caps of fur and CLEAN SHAVEN. Beards make for lice and those other artifacts the VENUS OF WILLENDORF figures show corn row hair. Sorry Venus Williams, you weren't the first. People shave, and if their tools may not have been Wolfmans they had something we no longer have for much of anything--TIME and leisure to do things properly.

But the most ancient known human rock art in Africa and SouthernFrance/Northern Spain say different. Lascaux with it's magnificient bulls had the original cave floor leveled for access by some french tourist official who's descendants probably work at euro Disney today.  There WERE hundreds of engraved 'photos' destroyed with only a few surviving.
The portraits were of people very much like Van Gogh's POTATO EATERS; upturned noses, close fitting caps of fur and CLEAN SHAVEN. Beards make for lice and those other artifacts the VENUS OF WILLENDORF figures show corn row hair. Sorry Venus Williams, you weren't the first. People shave, and if their tools may not have been Wolfmans   they had something we no longer have for much of anything--TIME and leisure to do things properly.

It was just graffiti from a long time ago.

Difference between art and vandalism is who owns the canvas

Calling ceremonial rock art graffiti is like calling a medieval cathedral a taco bell.

Calling ceremonial rock art graffiti is like calling a medieval cathedral a taco bell.

Ceremonial rock art is still just art. It's drawings. While I would not venture so far as to call it vandalism I would absolutely classify it in the same category as a "modern" painting or photograph. It is an artistic, creative endeavor explicitly undertaken to invoke a specific reaction from the viewer, be it reverence or revolt...

Graffiti is the same thing albeit typically on a canvas not owned by the artist, putting it in the category of vandalism...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Calling ceremonial rock art graffiti is like calling a medieval cathedral  a taco bell.

No I get something of value from Taco Bell