complexity.

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wazoox
I've visited several caves this summer (Lascaux, Combarelles, Font-de-Gaume,
Rouffignac, and a couple others) and there is a constant: the artists weren't
amateurs, they were extremely skilled. First, in many places it was impossible
at the time to see the entirety of the drawing at a glance because of the very
low height, or the wall curvature, but the proportions are right anyway (most
visited caves have been dug out; back then you had to crawl for hundreds of
meters in pitch darkness to reach the drawings). Similarly, the animals are
drawn with a very high anatomical precision. Even animals that didn't exist
locally, like mammoths (which mean that the artist had seen mammoths earlier,
very far away).

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mcguire
Interesting article.

" _The first formal writing system that we know of is the 5000-year-old
cuneiform script of the ancient city ofThere are three international soccer competitions being played this summer on Canadian soil, and of the three the Pan Am games are undoubtedly the least important for both the men's and women's teams. The men will have their eye on the Gold Cup, while the women will be recovering from the World Cup.

As such, the rosters announced for both the men's and women's Pan Am teams today were not first choice. The best men's players will be up with the Gold Cup team, the best women's players don't want to do double duty.

However, there are a lot of nice surprises on both team sheets, and both give off the impression that Canada could be a difficult team to beat at Toronto 2015.

The Women's Roster

Canada's women's roster for the