Joe Duxbury
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I'm not sure whether 'Cave Science' is the right category for this. Could it be 'Caving in the Media'? Anyway, have any of you seen the recent newspaper articles about Stone Age cave painters deliberately starving themselves of oxygen to bring about hallucinations? The theory, according to a study in the journal 'Time and Mind', is that they 'intentionally induced a state of hypoxia'. Personally, I think it's a load of tosh. The researchers may have discovered that torches decreased levels of oxygen in spaces similar to where cave paintings are found, but did they try painting under these conditions? The cave paintings are so perfect and sophisticated that I don't believe they could have been created while the artist was experiencing 'hallucinations and out-of-the-body experiences'. And there are other contradictions in the newspaper interpretation of the original study, which I must try and get hold of.
Over to you.
Over to you.