350 centuries ago
Zowie.
Archaeologist Ticia Verveer on Facebook:
This beautiful tiny woolly mammoth figure, measuring just 3.7 cm long and weighing a mere 7.5 grams, was skilfully carved with a flint tool ca. 35,000 years ago. It was found at the site of the Vogelherd Cave in southwestern Germany.
Thirty five THOUSAND years ago.
Just imagine. That’s about 1200 generations!
That is beautiful.
When I saw the post title from the previous post, I thought it was going to be Trump talking about something that happened 350 years ago.
That’s as old as the earliest cave paintings.
I wonder how often our ancestors, armed with throwing spears, actually hunted these animals, it would have been a very dangerous way to get lunch. Quite different from modern ‘hunters’ using firearms.
Ars longa vita brevis est.
(Hope I got the Latin right; it’s by way of MGM)
Hahahaha yep quite right. And very apt.
That is exquisite. I wonder how many other equally beautiful pieces of art have been lost to the ravages of time and the elements, having been made of more fragile stuff.
So very many. It’s gut-wrenching to think of.
I quite often wish all human beings would evaporate off the planet. But some of them can really make amazing stuff.
That was probably my great^1000 aunt’s work. We’re very proud of her.