I have to say, I give Hamp major kudos for being here, and posting twice already, since we've seen no showing of Tyler, or any of the wives.
As far as the cave paintings go… this image 
was all I could see in my head while reading. I'd like to see the human that was drawn so crudely to be believed unmagical.
-Amber
Yeah! We're back to pictures (a little alphabet humor), and what a cool find Amber!
First, I have to say hurray for boys being boys and exploring caves. Without young boys we may not have a lot of great discoveries like these paintings or the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Second, the "interpretations" that are given to such finds always amuse me. Without knowing anything about these people or their culture we assume we know so much about them and their motives for the drawings.
Whatever the main reason was for the drawings, I think it does indicate that man has been a creative and expressive creature from the beginning.
Dad
I just think of how amazing it would have been to be one of those boys who discovered the cave. Seeing all of that for the first time, being able to really explore it and not know what you would see on the next wall must have been really cool. And yes, amen for boys and their curiosity.
Lisa
Dad, I knew you were going to say something about the interpretations we make of ancient cultures, but I don't think it's like people just make stuff up. They study whatever they can find of the remains of a culture and make guesses from there. Not that their guesses are perfect, maybe they're not even close, but they are not just stories pulled from thin air, I don't think. Of course, who really knows.
Lisa, I'm glad you made it. But is this wiki another instance of where you and Elliott think of yourselves as one person? haha. Don't cheat us.
Haha… no me and lisa will not be one person on this wiki. i personally get very annoyed at these paintings, more because of the interpretations then the paintings themselves. having had one to many art history courses and breathy professors going on about these paintings i get frustrated with the dating and the placing in history. although they are impressive for cave painting, i find i think of them more as some one who was board and looking for a creative outlet, then magical depictions drawn with the upmost care. and with most of there fictional significance coming from a made up date i just can't get real excited about them. i wish people could except the mystery in things, rather then having to create it.
elliott
I agree with Lisa that it would be tight to be one of the boys who discovered the cave. Other then that it's just a cool story to me, and that's all i got today.
-Hamp
I have an image from my Survey of Western Art class but I'm not sure how to put it in here… I guess I'll just email it to everyone later. As I can remember from my class these paintings were amazing. Not only because they were preserved so well but because of man's creativity to reproduce a work of "art" in these circumstances.
I will have to disagree with Elliott when they pin the dates and eras… this is one of the most exiting things. They coin the time and period when they look at what surrounded the caves and what was going on at that time, as well as other things.
Also, it is interesting to see that the materials used were not archival when exposed to light or activity.
I hope I can write everyday… I always have something to say, the timing is not always right.
Maria
As usual I'm a little late on this subject. I thought the fact that the man was stick-like was more proof of man's mystery ; he was too complicated to draw so that he just symbolized him. What I found funny was that the reproduction was only 2 hundred feet from the original. Did that really help the preservation that much?
mom
I"m catching up….slowly, but surely. I love this stuff. One of the best things ever was going into the tombs in Egypt and seeing incredible story/history telling art that had been there for 6-7,000 years. I think man was created to be creative in all the arts. sometimes, you just have to get it out. I would have loved to have been one of those boys….too cool…..but, don't you wonder how people will interpret us as a society when they uncover all of the graffiti in LA?
Robin
LOL….Good question Rob. I hope we're not interpreted as a society based upon the grafitti discovered one day discovered in LA. Yikes. The things the future will think about us…..
I like that picture of the horse Amber found. That is a similar vision I held in my head. I also envisioned dot-to-dot with the stars. Whenever your looking at the stars or clouds and you see a shape, don't you ever mold it into anything? I do :) Cave men we're probably real board and cold, which is how they ventured into the cave to begin with. 1,500 drawing later their famous artist from the prehistoric days. Like Link from the movie "Prehisteria" (i think that's the title). Leave it up to the boys to just "stumble" into a cave, and find these paintings. It goes to show, boys causing mischief since 1940. Can't live with'em, can't live without'em!
Sorry not much to note about. I typically think with the right side of my brain. Not much of an artist either. Till next chapter….
*Stephanie*
