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A year at Pech Merle
Translation in English by Linda
Wilson
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the limestone which will later become the
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around 3:15am (this took less than one hour) |
the last day of the year
- around 4:15pm the first hominids appear in East Africa |
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the last hour of the year |
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at about 11pm, water makes the main formations in the cave (stalactites,
stalagmites, columns, disks, curtains, pearls etc) - at 11:15pm, man masters fire - at 11:40pm, he buries his dead - at 11:45pm, Neanderthal Man arrives in Europe. - 5 minutes before midnight, modern humans appear, called "Cro-Magnon" men, they live by hunting and migrate with the seasons, it's us! - 4 minutes before midnight, the sacred art in the deep caves of Europe begins |
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3 minutes before midnight, the Dotted Horse Panel in the cave of Pech
Merle is painted - 1 minute and 10 seconds before midnight, the last period of glaciation ends - 1 minute before midnight, somewhere in the Middle East, a civilization of farmers and stock-breeders replace the hunters. Around 20 seconds later, farmers living in villages settle in Quercy. They build many dolmens in which they bury their dead - 21 seconds before midnight : writing appears. This is the end of Prehistory in the Middle East and Europe - Midnight : you are visiting the website of Pech Merle ... |
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