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Faces from the Ice Age

Photoshop B.C. Edition writes: "Talk about data mining. Apparently some of those ice age cave paintings found throughout France actually may have, or had, some human portraits engraved, not on their walls, but on their floors. The controversial discovery was made at the Lascaux cave complex whose paintings date back around 15,000 years ago. This may explain why all the previous examples of cave paintings never depicted realistic representations of humans, while at the same time successfully representing realistic looking animals. (By the way, the one at the bottom of the article looks like Darth Maul ;)"

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  1. Here you go.. by dostick · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..the proof that Star Wars happened before the life on Earth was born.

  2. Hmm by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

    What could be the oldest lifelike drawings of human faces have been uncovered in a cave in southern France....Now, one German scientist, Dr Michael Rappenglueck, of Munich University, says it is time the pictures were reassessed.

    Vee have vays of making you chalk.

    ;)

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