{"product_id":"the-hand-on-the-wall-the-night-someone-drew-a-horse-chauvet-36-000-bce-9798259236028","title":"The Hand on the Wall: The Night Someone Drew a Horse Chauvet 36,000 BCE","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael McGilbourne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - Prehistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Night Someone Drew a Horse Chauvet 36,000 BCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou are the end point of an unbroken chain of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery person who came before you lived long enough to pass forward what was necessary for you to exist. Everything that happened between humanity's beginning and this moment is not the past - it is the story of the making of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA limestone cliff above the Ard�che River. 36,000 years ago.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA band of twenty to fifty people. A cave opening halfway up pale stone. \u003cb\u003eThe first human hand ever pressed onto a wall and left behind.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe paintings inside that cave have survived thirty-six thousand years of darkness, undisturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hand on the Wall asks: What would it have meant to be inside that moment?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot as a shaman or chief, but as an ordinary girl - \u003cb\u003ethe pigment grinder who learned to see twice, who placed her hand flat against limestone and blew the red around it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat did they feel in their hands when they held charcoal and bone?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is the difference between a horse and a horse on a wall - when the people who drew it saw no difference at all?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe facts are extraordinary enough.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Chauvet paintings are nearly twice as old as any other known cave art - dated directly from the charcoal used.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA child's footprints walk beside a wolf's in the soft mud. Both are 36,000 years old. Both are still there.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA bear skull was placed on a stone slab, facing the entry. No one moved it. It is the oldest known arrangement of a sacred object.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand stencils on the walls were made by blowing pigment through hollow bones. Analysis suggests many of the painters were women and children.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory is not dates. It is billions of lives lived as urgently as yours.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe river ran cold in the mornings. Wood smoke never left the clothes. The red ochre came from stone that had to be ground for hours on flat rocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey drew something that is still asking us questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is one ordinary girl's attempt to answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor homeschooling families: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Beyond His Story We Stand series was written for you. Each book takes one moment in human history and makes it lived rather than memorised, felt rather than filed away. Not a textbook. A story your child will not want to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hand was placed on stone thirty-six thousand years ago. The hand did not fade. Come and listen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883184963735,"sku":"9798259236028","price":1272.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798259236028.webp?v=1781100059","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-hand-on-the-wall-the-night-someone-drew-a-horse-chauvet-36-000-bce-9798259236028","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}