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moobu2

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2. I think the drawings were intended to be
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:49 AM
Sep 2012

anthropomorphic depictions of whatever constellations were important to them. The bull was Taurus for instance and there's evidence that the other animal figures match star positions from that age as well. There's an obvious depiction of the Pleiads and there's a depiction of the phases of the moon etc...and the entrance lines up with the sun on the summer solstice. The cave painters could have still used a technique to give the impression of movement.

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