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Sunday 1 February 2015

ART,CRYPTOZOOLOGY AND MAN , A POST OF AN IDEA

Caveman without fully knowing it was the first cryptologist via witnessing the animals,flora,insects in thier time.In what inspired them to create or find art in which we are left with in different   .The earliest evidence of artistic activity, in the form of diagonal etchings made with a shark tooth, was described cultures and forms.Sounds a crazy idea so far folks but the link between art,cryptozoology and man  is thier and i hope by doing this blog post was meant to be a talk originally but don't think anyone would listen too.This post is just to put my idea weather or not i can prove it is more difficult but tahts part of  the fun and deabate .Man came from apes than grow and was art born or a concept.I dont know if an idea already out in the world if so sorry  -here is some info from wiki-  In 2014 on a 500,000 year old fossil of a clam found in Java in the 1890s associated with Homo erectus. [3]
Some archaeologists have interpreted certain Middle Paleolithic artifacts as early examples of artistic expression.[4][5] The symmetry of artifacts, evidence of attention to the detail of tool shape, has led some investigators to conceive of Acheulean hand axes and especially laurel points as having been produced with a degree of artistic expression.
The Mask of La Roche-Cotard has been taken as evidence of Neanderthal figurative art, although in a period post-dating their contact with Homo sapiens. There are other claims of Middle Paleolithic sculpture, dubbed the "Venus of Tan-Tan" (before 300 kya)[6] and the "Venus of Berekhat Ram" (250 kya). In 2002 in Blombos cave, situated in South Africa, stones were discovered engraved with grid or cross-hatch patterns, dated to some 70,000 years ago. This suggested to some researchers that early Homo sapiens were capable of abstraction and production of abstract art or symbolic art. Several archaeologists including Richard Klein of Stanford are hesitant to accept the Blombos caves as the first example of actual art.
Cryptozoology (from Greek κρυπτός, kryptos, "hidden" + zoology; literally, "study of hidden animals") is a pseudoscience involving the search for animals whose existence has not been proven. The animals cryptozoologists study are often referred to as cryptids, a term coined by John Wall in 1983.[1] This includes looking for living examples of animals that are considered extinct, such as non-avian dinosaurs; animals whose existence lacks physical evidence but which appear in myths, legends, or are reported, such as Bigfoot and Chupacabra;[2] and wild animals dramatically outside their normal geographic ranges, such as phantom cats (also known as Alien Big Cats).
Cryptozoology is not a recognized branch of zoology or a discipline of science.[2] It is an example of pseudoscience because it relies heavily upon anecdotal evidence, stories and alleged sightings.[3][4][5]The coining of the word cryptozoology is often attributed to Belgian-French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans

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  1. There are cave paintings in France some 25,000 years old that have been interpredted as dragons.

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