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Also the heat on the patches from the red and blue has just gone from a 0 to 100. It had been nice a run for a few years, not a cop in sight all day every day. Now this year I’ve seen more people in one day(I went to 8 different spots in one day 1st June) than I have in last 5 years combined and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Just a heads up.

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We really don't know what was going on in the minds of artists when they painted and it is easy for us to mistakenly ascribe meaning to what we see.

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there were several waves of human migration Out of Africa and into the
Middle East uh but I maintain on based on the archaeological evidence that only the last wave of migration Out of Africa which began only 20,000 years ago uh were the people anything other than hunter gatherers always before they were just Hunter gathers but this last time
in the intervening glacial period they had learned to domesticate cattle in Africa and it was almost as though the
human population was Finding its way toward the cattle and of course in the dung of the cattle was the mushroom

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There is nothing to suggest that psilocybin mushrooms or African people had anything to do with the Bradshaw paintings as far as I know.

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That's the part I find interesting, specifically this research here on these images:



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Mushroom head’ depiction shared by Sandawe (A) and Bradshaw (B) cultures. Extant Sandawe shamans testify that this depiction represents the subjective experience of a trance under the influence of magic mushrooms (Psilocybe spp.). We can validly assume that these identical icons have the same meaning in the Bradshaw culture, even though it is extinct, without extant human witnesses.

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The paper is well worth the read. Loved the part about how the strong westerlies in the Pleistocene summers in the Indian Ocean...and that if the Sandawe aligned their course with the rising sun (which they might have done if they were religious/worshipped the sun), then they would be heading from Tanzania directly to the Kimberley.



I thought that was a nice hypothesis.

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how close actually is the resemblance between the Bradshaw rock art on the one hand, and Sandawe rock art on the other, on a statistical basis covering the estimated 100,000 rock art sites and millions of individual artistic images comprising the Bradshaws, when compared to the totality of Sandawe rock art

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The Australian baobab link to Tanzania must also be looked at with more discerning eye

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If the Sandawe were indeed responsible for the Bradshaws... what happened to them...and were they absorbed into the local Aboriginal population?

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Scholars have generally rejected the idea that Gwion Gwion art was painted by anyone other than Aboriginal people. Statistical analysis undertaken by Michael Barry has concluded that the Gwion Gwion art shares no stylistic attributes with prehistoric figurative art overseas. Moreover, Barry argues that stylistically, Gwion Gwion art has more in common with art found elsewhere in Australia, such as figures painted in Arnhem Land.

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