So called tectiforms are prevalent in paleolithic cave art. Below images
are from the Castillo cave in Spain. (From Prehistoric Cave Paintings by Rebecca B. Marcus, 1968).
http://s14.postimg.org/8m63y6g69/abstractcave1.jpg
Designs such as these are found in all of the painted caves. Sometimes rectangular patterns have been filled in with different earth colours.
Could it be board games? The lower image looks very much like a Ludo
board. The Aztecs played Patolli, which was very similar. The Indians
play Pachisi. The ancient Egyptians played Senet. People have always
incised board game structures onto walls, into the bedrock, onto temple walls, etc.
"In the ancient temple at Kurna in Egypt (c. 1400 B.C.) there are more
than 70 board games painstakingly carved into the roofing slabs, dating
from different epochs in history".
http://www.two-paths.com/boardgam1.htm
People have always viewed board games as divine, because the dice follow
the will of the gods. Did paleolithic man play a version of Ludo?
This presents itself as precursors to later board games than had more >elaboration in terms of boards and pieces. That makes sense since in a >hunting/gathering lifestyle everything has to be carried around, and
board games might be something that didn't qualify as luggage. Hence,
set up the board with whatever's handy.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:54:34 -0600, RicTrasky
<traREskyMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
This presents itself as precursors to later board games than had more >elaboration in terms of boards and pieces. That makes sense since in a >hunting/gathering lifestyle everything has to be carried around, and
board games might be something that didn't qualify as luggage. Hence,
set up the board with whatever's handy.
Or the board could be drawn/carved on something with a different
use, such as a piece of leather.
[...]
Your jpg could use some context, or at least a caption as to where and
when it is from. I tried to locate it through google images but didn't
find it.
[...]
On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 6:31:34 AM UTC+2, M Winther wrote:
So called tectiforms are prevalent in paleolithic cave art. Below images
are from the Castillo cave in Spain. (From Prehistoric Cave Paintings by
Rebecca B. Marcus, 1968).
http://s14.postimg.org/8m63y6g69/abstractcave1.jpg
Designs such as these are found in all of the painted caves. Sometimes
rectangular patterns have been filled in with different earth colours.
Could it be board games? The lower image looks very much like a Ludo
board. The Aztecs played Patolli, which was very similar. The Indians
play Pachisi. The ancient Egyptians played Senet. People have always
incised board game structures onto walls, into the bedrock, onto temple
walls, etc.
"In the ancient temple at Kurna in Egypt (c. 1400 B.C.) there are more
than 70 board games painstakingly carved into the roofing slabs, dating
from different epochs in history".
http://www.two-paths.com/boardgam1.htm
People have always viewed board games as divine, because the dice follow
the will of the gods. Did paleolithic man play a version of Ludo?
Mats Winther
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I believe that tectiforms, and especially the beautiful ones in
the Castillo cave, indicate settlements, while dots accompanying them indicate life, existence. In my reconstruction of the Ice Age lingua
franca of shamans and shamanesses called Magdalenian the words are
connected: DAI for a protected area, and the comparative form SAI
for life, existence. Especially red dots indicate life, on cave walls
that often symbolize the sky they claim a second life in the heavenly
beyond, for example the oldest element of European cave art known
so far, a red ocher dot in the Altamira cave, some 42,000 years old.
Other ideograms, for example squares and rectangles, are calendar
figures (Lascaux), indicating patterns laid out with pebbles. And
then there certainly were board games, or games of laying out pebbles
on a clay bank.
On 11/04/2016 17:54, RicTrasky wrote:
[...]
Your jpg could use some context, or at least a caption as to where and
when it is from. I tried to locate it through google images but didn't
find it.
[...]
I gave the source: "Prehistoric Cave Paintings" by Rebecca B. Marcus, 1968.
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