Prehistoric Art News

 Here are some recent and fairly recent news stories that have some connection to my own finds and research. First up this headline from the Daily Mail:

Unknown ancient humans made elephant bone tools to carve meat 400,000 years ago in a way not thought to be possible until 100,000 years later, archaeologists say

• Researchers analysed elephant remains found near Rome between 1979 and 91 
• They found nearly 100 ancient hominid made tools created 400,000 years ago
• Among the bones they found a smoother, once used in the treatment of leather
• However, it was made using a technique not seen until about 300,000 years ago 
• Other earlier than expected techniques included the processing of long bones 
• They don't know for certain which human species created the unusual bone tools but the team behind the study suspect it would have been Neanderthals 

The link is here. The tools made of elephant bone (no surprises there, elephant images are so common in my U.K finds) and quite a few can easily be interpreted as holding the basic thumb or finger glyph from my chart. I also notice a close shape match with a find from my site in Sothern England (very close to the famous Boxgrove man 500,000 year old find site)  So many science teams wrongly claim a particular human species group with little to no hard evidence, a breath of fresh air in credibility for the team behind this study.

Finds B,C,D and E can easily be interpreted as holding thumb or finger figuration to the few of us who understand Palaeolithic symbology. Finds A,G and H appear more like the clawed nail variation. H also looks like a cloaked figure with face details. 

A close shape match is apparent with the above find from Italy and the below find from my site here in the U.K. Interesting a slight patch of cortex remains on my find in exactly the polished area shown at the tip of the Italian find.

This next study in Science Alert is about the predominance of Horse depictions in cave paintings across Europe from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago:

Stone Age Artists Were Inexplicably Mesmerised by Horses, Millennia Before Domestication

The link is here. Although I have made sculptured horse head finds from my site, (often combined with elephant half) before reading this article I was unaware that a predominately right facing orientation was also apparent, or even a thing, I don't have thousands of samples of horse depictions as in the study in the article, but a possible trend is evident in my own finds.

Look carefully for common Palaeolithic figuration in the stone tool above.

This is an article in Swaddle, although I would be cautious about accepting the headline. 

World’s Oldest Cave Art Was Made by Children, Study Shows

The link is here. The claim that children made this art is in my opinion completely unsupported. Very small stature people were known to exist in prehistoric times did they rule out these? No they used modern day data from the WHO of all people.

Figure Stones - Palaeolithic Language

 As many of you will know, since very early in my prehistoric artwork discoveries I have put forward the view that my finds are a form of prehistoric communication, Palaeolithic visual language to be more precise. I have repeatedly demonstrated my glyph set, in worked stone and more conventional stone tool finds, not only in my collection, but in the finds of others, both amateur stone finds and professionally recognised finds and ancient tool assemblages from all over the world. 

Due to mainstream resistance to such ideas I have repeatedly re-demonstrated, re-checked, and concentrated my efforts into scientific proof by demonstrating things that are re-observable, re-testable both in and outside my own evidence. Many of my followers have demonstrated the validity of my work by sharing there own finds that  clearly fit my descriptions, topology, convention, glyph set, and world view, thank you.

I've not only put up with resistance in the mainstream, but also envy and deceitful behaviour from the very people who should be hailing my success,  because they utterly failed to prove much of anything themselves really, so they attack.

So is the landscape about to change? well it looks like it with this article in Science Advances, as it could be seen to again support my own research in my Palaeolithic language discoveries as many of my glyphs and the concept 'ambiguous optical illusions' or the melding and conglomerating glyphs together seem present.

“We don’t know what they meant, but they’re clearly symbolic objects that were deployed in a way that other people could see them,”  Said Professor Kuhn form this Article in Heritage Daily. This is where I can offer clarity if the modifications and markings on the shells are consistent with attempts to produce likenesses to my own well established common lexicon of symbols. Just look below for the front half's of elephants.

My followers will instantly see some plausible glyphs from my common set in the photo of the modified shells above. Simply these could easily work just like my definition of figure stones as visual communication tools and would take a lot less effort to modify and make, besides other advantages.

It's easy to conceive three of the most ubiquitous of the figure stone symbols in the shell on the left, elephant head and front leg (facing left), hand grip (thumb and finger joined at the bottom), Long necked water bird head reaching backward cleaning feathers (rotate  180 degrees CW). The shell on the right easily conveys the thumb motif, both clawed and nailed, also penis, and possible bear-half right facing.

Both could easily convey the water bird glyph also, beside others in the common set. These two both seem to have 'eye' modifications in the correct place to indicate that's a distinct possibility.

I've already contacted Professor Kuhn, the likeness to my glyphs and the ubiquity in world wide Palaeolithic tool assemblages from around the world to these shell is undeniable, and proving it would only require detailed analysis of the shells modifications, both removals and any additions of pigments.