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How to Paint Cro-Magnon: The Real Origins of Prehistoric Cave Art

A quick tour of nine prehistoric caves and a description of the art found there. The artists’ inspirations and techniques are explained revealing how and why these amazing works were created.

Prehistoric Cave Art - An Analysis 

A description of prehistoric cave paintings and an insightful look at what is revealed by stylistic and statistical analysis of the entire oeuvre. 

How to Speak Cro-Magnon

The Cro-Magnon language is recreated using a new understanding of the prehistoric nomadic hunter-gatherer society.

How Disney Goofed With Prehistoric Cave Art

In spite of Disney’s entrance to Epcot’s World Sphere there are no hunting scenes in cave art.

Peaceable: Regarding the Inherent Violence of Human Beings

In spite of all historic evidence, people are not programmed by nature to be violent. It is an acquired behavior affecting only the past 10,000 years of human existence. 

Wolf-Man, Elephant-Man: Evolutional Behavior

Scholars have tried to show how human nature is biologically governed by relating human societies to animal societies. There is a small problem with their efforts. They misunderstand human nature.

When Did a Spear Change from Tool to Weapon?

Modern academic studies suffer from verbal and other biases. This is an attempt to clarify some of them. 

Cooperation and Competition in the Human Race

Margaret Mead developed the concepts. Now we can explain it all.

Let the Games Begin: Competition As Human Nature

Games and vying to win would seem to be in us all. Remarkably it is an unnecessary, acquired behavior.

Man and Nature: The Nature of Man

What exactly is the relationship of people to nature? What is man’s place in the physical world? It is definitely not the same as it was 20,000 years ago.

Ultimate Ancestry

Why do we research our genealogies? Beyond our wildest dreams we can now learn the admirable character of our most distant ancestors. 

Simple Hunter-Gatherers Lived Better Than You Do

Physically, mentally, and emotionally our nomadic hunter-gatherer cousins and ancestors lived a life of contentment. That is not often said of persons today.

Survival - Now and Then

All living things are motivated by biological and evolutional directives. Except for human beings born over the past 10,000 years.

When Was the Name of God First Spoken?

Religion and God are not inherent in human experience. There was a time and reason for man’s recognition of God and for the origin of religion.

Praying for Magic, Wishing and Hoping

Exactly how does Supernatural relate to the experience of mankind? Is it necessity?

The Birth of the Boogey Man

Yes, the boogey man was born. He emerged 10,000 years ago full-grown from the minds of men.

Cast Out Of Eden

Really. It happened, a loss of innocence. Prehistory reveals the scenario, cause and effect.

The Psychological Shift: Why We Are No Longer What We Were

Homo sapiens were an integral part of the natural world. Then, within a matter of decades humanity transformed from Dr. Jekyll to Hr. Hyde. What happened?

Pandora’s Box of the Human Mind

For 150,000 years the magical box of woes and terrors remained tightly closed. What unleashed the furies of human sorrows that will never again be contained? These are the facts, not metaphors.

What It Means To Be Civilized

It’s not what you think. Civilization began 10,000 years ago with a complete transformation of the human species. Why and how and what happened next are fully explored.

What I Learned 10,000 Years Ago

These are the lessons gleaned from Ice Age cave art, agriculture, and the mother-and-child symbiosis.

Repercussions from Prehistory

Prehistory was nothing before someone conjured him. Then for more than one hundred years he was a sleeping giant. Now he has awakened with a voice of thunder echoing through a thousand canyons.

The 99% Flip

It wasn’t a little change 10,000 years ago. It was the complete reversal of what had been a stable reality for 150,000 years. Take a look at what changed. Take a look in the two-way mirror of that event.

What is human nature?

No matter how you describe human nature now, it is a far cry from what human nature once was. 

Norman Pedersen is happy to talk about almost anything as it relates to prehistory, humanity, or Modern Civilization and Modern thinking. Feel free to suggest a topic.