Chauvet Cave's advanced ancient human art

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Paintings found in Chauvet Cave, France

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world [1], as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life [2].

It is located near the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on a limestone cliff above the former bed of the river Ardèche, in the Gorges de l'Ardèche.

Discovered on Dec. 18, 1994, it is considered one of the most important prehistoric art sites. On June 22, 2014, the United Nation's cultural agency UNESCO granted it World Heritage status [3].

Romania stamp (Steppe Wisent Chauvet Cave)

The cave was first explored by a group of three speleologists: Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet (for whom the cave was named) six months after an aperture now known as "Baba's Hole" (Le Trou de Baba) was discovered by Michel Rosa (aka Baba) [4].

At a later date the group returned to the cave. Another member of this group, Michel Chabaud, along with two others, travelled farther into the cave and discovered the Gallery of the Lions, the End Chamber. Chauvet has his own detailed account of the discovery [5].

Ancient lions painting found in Chauvet Cave

In addition to the paintings and other human evidence, they also discovered fossilized remains, prints, and markings from a variety of animals, some of which are now extinct.

Further study by French archeologist Jean Clottes has revealed much about the site. The dates have been a matter of dispute, but a study published in 2012 supports placing the art in the Aurignacian period, approximately 32,000–30,000 years ago.

A study published in 2016 using an additional 88 radiocarbon dates showed two periods of habitation, one 37,000 to 33,500 years ago and the second from 31,000 to 28,000 years ago, with most of the black drawings dating to the earlier period. More: Chauvet Cave

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There really are underground worlds

Iron Age European tunnels built 7,300 years ago in Austria (© DEA/M. Santini/Getty Images)

Archeologists found 1,000 feet of tunnels hiding an entire underground world

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  Research into ancient Austrian salt mines reveals an extensive Iron Age tunnel complex and evidence of mining from as long as 7,300 years ago.
• Archeologists uncovered nearly 1,000 feet of mining tunnels through the mountains at Hallstatt.
• Finds from within the mining chambers show history of the site and the evolution of tool usage.
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(Popular Mechanics) Nearly 1,000 feet of ancient salt mining tunnels and chambers in the mountains near Hallstatt, Austria, have revealed a remarkably extensive mining history from the Iron Age. But the mountain’s history of salt mining goes back even further—7,300 years to be exact.

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Archeologists have the ancient tools to prove it. As the Natural History Museum in Vienna continues to open a window into the salt mining history of the site, newly discovered mining chambers tell the story of how ancient inhabitants tracked salt deposits through the mountains, digging deeper with each hopeful find.

“These impressively demonstrate how salt mining has driven innovations in technology, organization, and transport since prehistoric times, playing a pivotal role in Hallstatt’s development into one of Europe’s oldest industrial centers,” the museum wrote in a statement.

“The exceptionally well-preserved finds from the salt mine provide valuable insights into the economic practices and lifestyles of past societies.”

Experts believe that when Neolithic inhabitants settled in the area above Hallstatt 7,300 years ago, they began mining salt almost immediately. Salt production hit an all-time high around 1200 B.C.E. [before the common era], in the late Bronze Age, with daily totals soaring to 1.5 tons of salt extracted from the mountain.

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It’s the extensiveness of the mining chambers and the clues left behind inside them that help illuminate that history. Archaeologists discovered not just a single massive mining cavern, but a series of tunnels and chambers, some running in parallel directly over and under others, progressively dipping deeper into the mountain.

Geological drilling helped reveal additional tunnels that were previously unknown. According to a report by Austria Press Agency (APA) published by Salzburger Nachrichten, experts say the chambers reached widths up to 80 feet and heights of 65 feet.

Archaeologists find 1,000 ft. of tunnels in mountain, a secret 7,300 years in the making

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The chambers traced salt deposits, showing how ancient miners chased the [edible rock and] valuable mineral deep into the mountains. Throughout the centuries, intense landslides caused major disruptions in salt production. “But mining went on and on,” Daniel Brandner, head of underground excavations from the museum’s prehistoric department, told APA.

“It was a very resilient community that provided salt again in a few years after these landslides.” Excavating the chamber floors—where mining debris and sediment have accumulated into a layer nearly 30 feet thick in places—turned up broken tools hafted in several different ways.

Iron Age mining implements are typically standardized and purpose-built, so the variety suggests that uniformity gave way to experimentation as the period went on. The site’s Neolithic beginnings are documented separately, by antler and stone picks recovered elsewhere in the mountain.

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Additional artifacts include burnt pine splinters, clothing fragments, wooden bowls with food residue, and even human waste.

The very salt mined in the mountains helped preserve the artifacts. With a bounty of finds peppering the 1,000 feet of chambers, archaeologists hope to continue searching the mountain for additional evidence of chambers in the mining network while analyzing the finds to create a better picture of prehistoric and ancient mining near Hallstatt.

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The Allegory of the Cave

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The allegory of the cave is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature."

It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates. It is narrated by Socrates. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the Sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e).

In the allegory, Plato describes people who have spent their whole lives chained by their necks and ankles in front of an inner wall [a screen] with a view of the empty outer wall of the cave.

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They observe the shadows [images] projected onto the outer wall by objects carried behind the inner wall by people who are invisible to the chained "prisoners" and who walk along the inner wall with a fire behind them, creating the shadows on the outer wall in front of the shackled prisoners.

The "sign bearers" pronounce the names of the objects, the sounds of which are reflected near the shadows and are understood by the prisoners as if they were coming from the shadows themselves.

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The only reality for the prisoners of the cave are those shadows and sounds, which are of course only inaccurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent distorted and blurred copies of reality we perceive through our senses, while the objects under the Sun represent the true forms of objects that we can only perceive through reason [or directly through refined intuition].

Three higher levels exist: (1) natural science; (2) deductive mathematics, geometry, and logic; and (3) the theory of forms.

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Socrates explains how a "philosopher" is like a prisoner now freed from the cave who comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not the direct source of the images seen.

A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even want to escape their chains or leave their prison, for they know no better life [1].

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Amazon Shamans on ET Greys (Ant People)

 

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Grey aliens -- also referred to as Roswell Greys, Zeta Reticulans, or simply as Greys [a] or Grays -- are a species of extraterrestrial beings on (and in) earth. [They are the ant people.]

They are frequently featured in claims of close encounters and forced alien abductions.

 
Greys are typically described as having small humanoid bodies, smooth, grey skin, disproportionately large limbs, hairless heads, and large, black, almond-shaped eyes like goggles or sunglasses.

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The famous 1961 Barney and Betty Hill abduction in the American desert was key to the popularization of Grey aliens [1, 2] as was Whitley Strieber's bestselling classic Communion: A True Story.

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Precursor figures have been described in science fiction and similar descriptions appeared in later accounts of the 1947 Roswell UFO incident and early accounts of the 1948 Aztec UFO incident (the "other Roswell").

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The world's most famous Grey is named "Roger Smith" whose handler (Stan Smith), working for the CIA, liberated him from Area 51.

The Grey alien is cited an archetypal image of an intelligent non-human creature or ET (extraterrestrial) life in general.

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Description and Appearance

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