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Neanderthal Art—37,300 Years Old
he GEICO caveman of TV fame has a
point. To say that something is so
simple a caveman could do it, does not
give them the respect they deserve. Assuming
they were Neanderthals, cavemen
were certainly capable of a great deal more
than that for which they have been given
credit. Neanderthals, in fact, may have
created the great lost mother culture for
which we have long sought. Dr. Robert
Schoch is among those who believe Neanderthals
may deserve much of the credit
for very early developments which heretofore
have been given to so-called modern
he father of the “mother” theory of
Earth is taking on the green movement
over fracking and other issues. Independent
environmentalist and futurologist
James Lovelock is best known for his Gaia
hypothesis that our planet’s biosphere is
an independent, self-regulating organism
with the innate capacity to take care of itself
and us—acting as our ultimate mother.
Lovelock sees no conflict between his
love for the planet and his enthusiasm for
fracking. The recently developed technological
strategy is to drill very deep, branch
out horizontally, and then use chemicals
to fracture bed rock to release vast quantities
of natural gas and oil. The technique
works so well that it has completely
changed the conventional wisdom about
how much fuel can actually be harvested
from the planet. Many environmentalist in-
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humans. Mainstream science has now accepted
that neanderthals used body paint,
wore jewelry, and worked with tools; and
now we learn they produced exceptional
cave art thousands of years before humans.
Science concedes that Neanderthals
came to Europe 250,000 years ago which
means they had plenty of time to advance
their culture. Modern humans, it is believed,
did not arrive until about 42,000
years ago. And it now it appears that Neanderthals
were blowing paint over their
hands to make stencils as much as 37,300
years ago. That is the age of art recently
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stinctively oppose the practice, but so far
they have been unable to produce evidence
sufficient to stop it, at least in the
U.S., though in Britain they have successfully
halted it for now. In June Lovelock
told the British Daily Guardian that “the
UK should be going mad for fracking.” He
is, he says, “very cross with the greens for
trying to block it.”
The amount of CO2 “produced by
burning gas in a good turbine gives you
60% efficiency. In a coal fired power station
it is 30% per unit of fuel. So you get
a two-to-one gain there straight away.” He
added that methane gets only half its energy
from carbon, and the rest is hydrogen.
That makes a four-to-one improvement
in CO2 output.
It seems to Lovelock to be what Americans
often call a ‘no-brainer.’
From the ‘Panel of Hands’ in
Spain’s El Castillo Cave (Photo:
Courtesy University of Bristol)
found in Spain’s El Castillo caves.
Science now recognizes that all signs
point to much greater age for both humans
and Neanderthals than was once believed.
It is no longer controversial to talk
in terms of at least half-a-million years.
In the meantime new discoveries in
Australia indicate that indigenous people
there were making remarkable cave art
28,000 years ago.
Whatever difficulties the ancient cave
men might have had securing insurance, it
is not because of any shortcomings in art
expertise.
James Lovelock
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