I'd been hoping to do a proper post today, but it's been difficult to find time to get online and blog. Partly this is due to the upcoming wedding, but partly because there are days, when to coin a popular local phrase, I can't find time to spit.

Still, there was one thing I wanted to post here today, which was prompted by Moonwoman's comment on yesterday's post. When we think of cave dwellers, we tend to think of a primitive, uncultured bunch of neanderthals who lived like animals, preoccupied only with the basic necessities of life.

However, a look at the cave paintings of Europe which are thousands of years old reveals they had a much more sophisticated society than we usually admit. Partly this is because little evidence from such an ancient period has survived. Partly, I suspect it may be because some scholars are reluctant to admit to such a level of sophistication back in the distant past.

Interestingly, Plato suggested a cave analogy for life itself. He believed we all live in a cave as prisoners, only able to see shadows on the cave wall but unaware of the forms that cast the shadows in the first place. Now there's food for thought!