The Art of Our Foremothers...

The historical and mythological records both show that female ingenuity gave us early technology-- weaving, the bow and arrow, ovens, pottery and early metallurgy, to name several-- and now it is finally being acknowledged that it was our female ancestors who painted a large share of the paleolithic cave murals found in various places around the world. Of course, this new understanding is not being widely trumpeted-- as it actually should be-- because (the archaeologist mentioned in the article below excepted) Goddess forbid that the men of academia should ever actually acknowledge the massive contribution that female intelligence has made to the well-being and mental development of our species. Here is the entire article from the National Geographic website--

June 16, 2009--Inside France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted Horses" mural.

For about as long as humans have created works of art, they've also left behind handprints. People began stenciling, painting, or chipping imprints of their hands onto rock walls at least 30,000 years ago.

Until recently, most scientists assumed these prehistoric handprints were male. But "even a superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots of female hands there," Pennsylvania State University archaeologist Dean Snow said of European cave art.

By measuring and analyzing the Pech Merle hand stencils, Snow found that many were indeed female--including those pictured here.

So first, evidence points to the high probability that the poet who composed and committed to writing the epics attributed to (a never-did-exist generic bard-fabrication called) Homer was female, and now we have female hand-prints all over cave murals in France. I know that my modern sisters and I will never receive the honest respect and full credit our sex is due, but the least that National Geographic could have done was devote more than 109 words to this important discovery.