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When I gazed at the horses in the cave paintings, I thought, ``What's Marc Chagall doing in the Stone...
Your article gives the impression that the cave paintings will ``greatly enrich our picture of Cro-Magnon life and culture.'' They will not. As you noted, there are numerous problems in interpreting art. While the Chauvet images may be great art, they reveal very little about ancient societies. Rather, our knowledge of these cultures has been generated by a century of painstaking excavation and research. From these efforts, we have constructed a relatively sophisticated picture of the behavior of pre- and early-modern human societies. Cave art provides little more than an impressive visual supplement to this. I wonder whether...
...cave pictures were breath-taking, and your article was so beautifully written that I felt the paintings were right before me [SCIENCE, Feb. 13]. I always feel humbled by evidence of early man. How brave he must have been, creating anew from his heart the world in which survival was surely an extraordinary struggle. He reminds me again that we have not come far enough...
...history of art must be rewritten to acknowledge the brilliant artists who elegantly transformed the appearance of creatures into an abstraction of red spots in the Chauvet cave...
...this kind of thing good or bad? That's an argument that's probably been going on since the first crude painting of a naked person was drawn on the wall of a cave. Does cybersex conform to community standards? The idea of community standards starts to evaporate when the ``community,'' like the Internet itself, is global. The large commercial online ``communities'' like CompuServe and America Online expressly forbid the posting of any explicit sexual material. Since, by popular demand, they are providing increased access to the Internet, however, they do allow you (after many disclaimers) to add the alt.sex...