it has always kind of amused/intrigued me how archeologists interpret etchings they find on cave walls. like because someone drew something, it MUST be true.
i belong to the school of thought that most cave paintings are merely caveman doodlings. i mean things must have been pretty damn boring back in the day (the Paleolithic day, that is). so what if to pass the time they would pick up a rock and just go to town on a cave wall for the hell of it? sort of like what we all did in notebook margins in school during class?
of course, hopefully this means that years and years from now, an archeologist will be digging in Braintree and find one of my old doodles from elementary school and he will tell the world "In 1988, flowers had FACES LIKE HUMANS"
(this entire post was based on me seeing This Article on Boston.com and thinking that picture was a caveman drawing even though it is clearly labeled "Fossil". yeah.)
Thursday, December 01, 2005
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Aw... Your flower makes me smile. :) And your post makes me worry... What will future archeologists think of *my* school-time doodles? Some scary stuff there...
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