I have never been terribly academic and that would be what has led to my downfall- I think....

But I have to study about Bushman Rock art- in caves to be more precise. There is a people called South African Bushmen, or San people who decided that they were bored due to a serious lack of MTV an decided that the best way to spend their days was to draw/paint and engrave randomly on walls, all over the Kalahari desert (post 400AD- naturally). They had numerous process's to create petroglyphs on walls- Pounding (bashing a hard rock off a flat rock surface, it wasn't a tidy process by any means, it was ragged and had a blurry outline) and Pecking is whereby the san people hit one hard stone off another in a hammer chisel type way and that pecked out the ships in the wall....... It is all very fascinating.

But having read about these people in the last couple of hours I cannot go without saying that they are obviously bloody mental. They loved an antelope called an Eland just because it was fat for god say, they thought there was something perfectly fantastical about it- obviously not supporters of the size zero generation. They also had a trance like state that they loved to reach, even though it made them suffer from awful nose bleeds and they looked like plonkers during the trance, kneeling down and bending forward with their arms outstretched behind them and for some unknown reason they had a finger pointing forward.

There is this archaeologist David Lewis Williams (aka: the idiot to wrote too many articles while high) who believes that we cannot understand the art of these people without understanding the people themselves..... yes... quite.

Am perfectly aware that this blog is ridiculously nerdish, but I will not apologise for it.

We must all be educated on the important matters.