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Let’s hear your favorite cave art locations. What do you think our students should take away from them?

Drew Fortune
Drew Fortune 8 months ago

Let’s talk about caves. It's what's up to bat for my students this week.

Lascaux, for instance. It’s like stepping into the mind of someone who saw the world as a giant puzzle, where animals were both the prey and the gods. And Altamira—what a place.

"Cave of Forgotten Dreams" by Warner Herzog takes the Chauvet Cave art to some fantastic places in terms of thinking about these ancestors. I always try to watch it before I go into this week of Era 2: Early Humans; it gets me really inspired to discuss this stuff.

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  • Laura Massa
    Laura Massa 8 months ago

    Drew Fortune  I watched the video a while ago and was fascinated by it. I bought the video and now show some scenes from it when I teach Threshold # 6 in Big History. The explanations of the spiritual meaning of the drawings are compelling. 

    Werner Herzog is a great movie director. I watched "Aguirre the wrath of God" when I taught Latin American History in my school.

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  • Bryan Dibble
    Bryan Dibble 8 months ago

    "It's what's up to bat"  - that pun is deep man.  Some might not see the light with that one, but I'm your flashlight man.  D-cells are lit.  Drew Fortune 

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