ORIGINS OF RELIGION 60 pictures avalaible

TEXT Pedro LIMA

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Grave of Saints’ Chapel. 45000 years, Neanderthal man.

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Neanderthal grave. Shelter of“La Ferrassie”.(Savignac-de-Miremont,Dordogne). +- 50 000 ans.

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©Gilles Tosello

Neanderthal man of “laChapelle-aux-saints”. Corrèze,France. Between 100000 and35000 years.

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Berekhat Ram statuette,Israel. Around 2 500 000years.

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©Francesco d'Errico

Berekhat Ram statuette,Israel. Around 2 500 000years. Close-up photographie.

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Homo erectus. 500 000 years.

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Grave of Qafzehcave.Nazareth, Israël. Around90 000 years. 25 years oldfemale and 6 years old child.Old Homo sapiens sapiens.

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Qafzeh man. Archaic Homosapiens, 92000 years old.Israel.

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Grave of Dolni Vestonicce III.Dolni Vestonice. Moravia,Tchécoslovaquie

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Grave of the Children’s cave.Around 8000 years BC.Teenager of Homo sapienssapiens .

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Grave of the Children’s cavealias “double grave”. Around25000 y. BC. Teenager andfemale adult of Homo sapienssapiens . Italian Liguria.

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Grave of Cavillon’s cave alias“Man of Menton”. Baldi Rossi.Italian Ligurie. Around 25000years. Adult female.

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Grave of Mondeval de Sora.Homo sapiens, 5300 years BC.

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Grave of Mondeval de Sora.Homo sapiens, 5300 years BC.Cervid antlers as an offering.

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Grave in the Villabruna’sshelter. Val Rosna, ValCismon, Italie. Around. 10090BC. Young man, 25. Homosapiens sapiens.

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Grave of Brick up Cave.Newborn baby and smallvessel. Around 2500 yearsBC. Homo sapiens sapiens.Roaix. Vaucluse.

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25 to 30 years old adult withan arrowhead in the thorax.Roaix, Vaucluse, France.

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Grave of Cavillon’s cave alias“Man of Menton”. Baldi Rossi.Italian Ligurie. Around 25000years. Adult female.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “Young Prince”. ItalianLiguria. Around 16 610 yearsBC. 15 years old child. Skull.

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Grave of Villard’s Mill alias“Caissargues lady”.Caissargues, Gard, France.Around 3000 years BC. 25years old young lady.

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Grave of the Children’scave alias “doublegrave”. Around 25000y. BC. Teenager andfemale adult of Homosapiens sapiens. ItalianLiguria.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “Young Prince”. ItalianLiguria. Around 16 610 yearsBC. 15 years old child.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “Young Prince”. ItalianLiguria. Around 16 610 yearsBC. 15 years old child. Handwith silex dagger.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “Young Prince”. ItalianLiguria. Around 16 610 yearsBC. 15 years old child. Handwith silex dagger.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “child with squirrel tails”.Italian Liguria. Around 16 610years BC. 6 years old child.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “child with squirrel tails”.Italian Liguria. Around 16 610years BC. 6 years old child.Hand.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “child with squirrel tails”.Italian Liguria. Around 16 610BC. 6 years old child. Detail.

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Grave of Arene Candide Cavealias “child with squirrel tails”.Italian Liguria. Around 16 610BC. 6 years old child. Head &ornementation.

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Grave of Villard’s Mill alias“Caissargues lady”.Caissargues, Gard, France.Around 3000 years BC. 25years old young lady.

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Through pictorial creation, theshaman became literallytogether as one with the rockand the supernatural worldbeyond it.(reconstitution)

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« Positive hands » or HandStencils were made by directlyapplying the palms of thehands to therock.(reconstitution).

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In front of the painted ibexesand bisons inside the Blackroom in Niaux. Prehistoric menused the faint light comingfrom grease lamps(reconstitution). 034060

Engraved horse. Chauvet’scave. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.

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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes

Rhinoceros. Chauvet cave.France. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.

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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes

Fresco with buffalos, horsesand rhinoceros. Chauvet cave.France. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.

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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes

Bear footprint. Chauvet cave.France. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.

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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes

Fresco with lionesses andrhinoceros. Chauvet cave.France. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.

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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes

Fresco with lionesses.Chauvet cave. France. ©DRAC Rhône-Alpes.

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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes

Fresco with rhinoceros.Chauvet cave. France. ©DRAC Rhône-Alpes.

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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes

Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez’son her computer working on amap of the night sky using theRedshift program.

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Lascaux cave. Unicorn andCapricorn constellation scaledup according to ChantalJégues-Wolkiewiez’s works

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Lascaux cave. Auroch drawnover the constellation of theBull according to ChantalJègues-Wolkiewiez’s studies.

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Lascaux cave. Auroch set incomparison with theconstellation of the Lionaccording to ChantalJègues-Wolkiewiez’s studies.

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Lascaux. Cave painting in thehall of Bulls.

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In the Black Room in Niaux(Ariège, France), Jean Clotteslights up a grease lamp toreveal a charcoal-drawn bisonon the wall.

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One of the panels in the Blackroom of the Niaux cavern,Magdalenian period.

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Shamans considered caves asgates to the supernaturalworld, fraught with femininesymbolism.

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Red snake-like shape in theLlonin cavern, Spain. © JeanClottes.

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©Jean Clottes

The figure next to the dyingantelope is that of a shamanhalf transmogrified in anantelope. It is a metaphor forthe phenomenon of trance.Natal region, Drakensberg,South Africa. © Jean Clottes.

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©Jean Clottes

Drawing of a siberian Tungusshaman (Nicolas Wisten,1705).

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©DR

An artist?s representation ofan unidentified engraving inthe cave of the ThreeBrothers(Montesquieu-Avantès, Ariège, France) known as thelittle wizard with the musicalBow.

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The little wizard in the ThreeBrothers Cave as reported b yH.Breuil.Montesquieu-Avantès, Ariège,France.

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©DR

Jumping horse’s engravedreindeer antlers. Cow cave.The Ariège, France.

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Neighing horse. Mas d’Azil’scave. The Ariège. France.

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Ibex propelling device.Enlène’s cave. The Ariège,France.

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Jumping horse propellingdevice. Château Bruniquel’sshelter. Tarn et Garonne,France.

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Lioness engraved bone. Cowcave. The Ariège, France.

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Izard stick.

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Homo sapiens of Abri Pataud,France, or Cro-Magnon man,22 000 years.

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Human line of descent.Australopithecus, Homo abilis,Homo ergaster, archaic Homosapiens (left to right), Homosapiens (front).

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