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Paleolithic
“
why do you paint in the dark'
i ask him
and he looks not at me
but away
'because i cannot bear my own darkness
in the light'
he is quiet for some time
'but inwardly i am told where
there is paint to be
and i paint it there in the dark
so none can see myself truly
burning in the sun
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― The Little Boy and the Painter
― The Little Boy and the Painter
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So not only was this curious bracelet [found at the Denisova cave] unequivocally the work of anatomically archaic human beings--the Denisovans-- but also it testified to their mastery of advanced manufacturing techniques in the Upper Paleolithic, many millennia ahead of the earliest use of these techniques in the Neolithic by our own supposedly "advanced" species, Homo sapiens. Also made crystal clear was the realization that the Denisovans must have possessed the same kinds of artistic sensibil
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― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
