Sunday, March 20, 2022
We need more women if we want to survive our pandemics and wars
Women, the Paleolithic Heart & Mind
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/women-the-paleolithic-heart-mind-3f1d67784eee
The Sha-women of the Painted Caves
[…] 7- The book
contains the proof that the Magdalenians were starting to develop some real
writing system with the case of the “P” sign attached to the Basque horse known
in Basque a Pottoka. But the numerous notations studied by Marshack may be
connected to the Lunar cycle. But they may also correspond to the observation
of menstrual cycles, and particularly the follow-up notations of the
impregnation and the first months of the pregnancy to make sure it was going to
be successful till delivery. This reading is essential to make sure the
impregnation is successful and to make sure the first months of the pregnancy
are carefully looked after to avoid miscarriages.
8- Altogether
this book was important in its time to counterbalance the excessive
sexualization and eroticization of Paleolithic societies by Leroi Gourhan for
example, but it did not follow the example of Lévi-Strauss he quotes to study
the language of these communities. It is difficult to do that when language is
purely oral, and we have no trace of it. I believe we could have a lot more
traces if we looked for them precisely. The case of the plosive ”P” is typical
of such possibilities. It is finally interesting to understand the tremendous
burden that has to be pushed aside in this field of research and that always
intervenes in the name of what we know as if no new knowledge was possible.
Things are changing very fast today, but we still have many obstacles on the
road to a real understanding of the emergence of Homo Sapiens.
ASIN: B083P5XT6R
Éditions La Dondaine: 8 janvier 2020
Langue: Anglais
Nombre de pages: 80 pages
