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hand-ax introduced by H. erectus about 1.8 million years ago in their assertion of their limbic
led phobic-memory of survival and the reflex to kill that which triggered it. Of course it was
often a common ancestor, that triggered the phobic-memory leading to their being hunted and
even ending up on the menu.
It was not until the great leap forward, by Cro-Magnon and Sapiens Sapiens, some 40 thousand
years ago, after some 60,000 years of acculturated ambivalence in bringing to realization
enough of their inherent potential in abstraction, in memory and cognition to create a culture
wherein their ancient history of limbic dominance in bio-brain system and culture process
would permit it’s development.
I argue such cultural stasis is the result of a limbically acculturated loyalty to our species lesser
evolved ancient memory and cognition in limbic meme-imitation of “Natures” lesser evolved
creatures, behaviors and culture, creating within that imitation a variety of limbic-dominant
proto-shamanic-cultures.
Not until 40,000 years ago did our species bio-brain systems inherent potential in semantics in
abstraction overcome its acculturated inhibition in cognition in abstraction enough to spark the
Cro-Mognon-Sapiens Sapiens, inherent potential for semantic-complexity with which to
transport, thoughts and imagination to concreteness with greater complexity.
As if suddenly culture began to fill with all sought of thoughts and things imagined, everything
from stone hand-axes and flakes. All kinds of tools of stone, wood, bone and bamboo emerged
in cultures throughout the world to serve survival and give comfort. Rituals for burial of
Cro-Magnon-Sapiens Sapiens became more elaborate than those of Neanderthal.
Invention and art burst forth like never before. Since the oldest dates of Europe’s cave art is
some 38,000 years ago and since Cro-Magnon are an earlier wave of Sapiens Sapiens whose
gene pool was around until 10,000 years ago, we must credit the earlier 60,000-10,000 years
ago Cro-Magnon with the major developments in art and culture in Europe until some 40,000
years ago. It was then that they were joined by a later wave of Sapiens Sapiens who being more
cognitively developed soon out competed Cro-Magnon, making their own contributions to the
further developments in culture and art.
The cave art in the Franco Cantibarian province is dated some 38,000 years ago, and includes
the historic Lascoux, Altamira and El Castillo caves. Cave art reached its heights in Europe
between 19,000 years ago to 14,000 years ago. Keep in mind that by 30,000 years of their
arrival the second wave of Sapiens Sapiens absorbed the Cro-Magnon gene pool driving them
to extinction some 10,000 years ago.
It is between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago in the cave wall paintings of Northwest and Northeast
Africa that we for the first time see groups of Sapiens Sapiens in the dress and body decorative
painting of their clan and time.Cave wall painting of domesticated herds of long horn cattle
appear for the first time.
As for Neanderthal no equivalent artifacts have been found at the earliest Neanderthal sites
which extend back to some 220,000 years ago, or earlier Archaic sapiens sites which date back
some 780,000 years ago. It is the later Neanderthal sites of some 70,000 years ago that have a
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