Locked in History

Sunday, September 8

Good Morning.

Today, commentary from Werner Herzog’s documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the Chauvet Cave in France.

By comparing all the paintings in the cave, it seems certain that the horses of this panel were created by one single individual. But in the immediate vicinity of the horses, there are figures of animals overlapping with each other.

The striking point here is that in cases like this, after carbon dating, there are strong indications that some overlapping figures were drawn almost 5,000 years apart.

The sequence and duration of time is unimaginable for us today.

We are locked in history, and they were not.

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