Winning–It’s All About Information

Maybe in the quest for new knowledge, we need to first look to our past so we can then move forward. This article below illustrates one approach to this.

In 1868, in a cave near Lascaux in southern France, human skeletons were found that proved to be between 10,000 and 35,000 years old. French geologist Louis Lartet, who made the discovery, named this race Cro-Magnon man. For decades, nobody quite knew where to place Cro-Magnons in the line of human evolution. The big clue came in 1940. That was when archaeologists discovered a vast treasure of Cro-Magnon cave wall art depicting animals, people and hunting weapons.

Were the Cro-Magnons gifted artists, or something more? Conventional scholarship says calendaring would not be invented for several millennia, until about 5000 B.C., by the Sumerians. But the Cro-Magnons, like the Ice Agers who built Stonehenge, may have figured out calendaring much earlier. Author Michael Rothschild says the Cro-Magnon cave drawings were more than fancy art. They were attempts to predict the migration patterns of deer, antelope and red elk. Tribe survival hung on this vital sharing of knowledge about food sources. To know when your protein was crossing the river was to raise the yield of your hunting efforts. [Read the rest]

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