The Bulls On The Wall — Lascaux, ~17,000 Years AgoThe Palaeolithic painters had the whole animal kingdom to choose from and they kept choosing the bull.
Lascaux is roughly 17,000 years old. Its great hall is aurochs. The same preference shows up at Göbekli Tepe when we start carving in stone, and it is still there when Sumer starts writing.The bull is not a menu item. It is the highest-value carrier, and it stays the highest-value carrier for fifteen thousand years. The bull is also the original symbol of the letter A, as the timeline reveals.
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