Banksy Fast Food Neanderthal Man Mounted & Framed Print ..Measures 10 x 8 Inches

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Banksy offers few clues about his work, which usually appears in public locations overnight, beyond a confirmation on social media. Is she saying animals were seen by humans as ‘friends’? “Yes, that’s almost exactly what I’m alluding to,” she explains. Britton doesn’t mean that animas and humans “chummed about together”, but rather that ancient people put animals on an equal footing, not simply as the food or pets we see them as today. “We view nature as separate from our lives.” Ancient people occupied a “different psychological space” when it came to animals. They interacted with animals all the time, culturally animals were “dominant” in the minds of early people, whereas we feel humans ‘dominate’ the animal kingdom. Caves found with remains of Paleolithic reindeer will be investigated. “It would be wonderful if we found homo sapiens,” she adds. Cut marks - signs of butchery - on animals bones dated to the Paleolithic will also help explain where and how humans lived in Scotland at the time.

Neanderthals could well have been alive until perhaps 25,000 years ago. It’s not “stupid at all”, says Britton to suggest Neanderthals may have made it to Scotland in this warmer period. We now know that billions of humans have some Neanderthal DNA in them, with Europeans carrying the most, around 2%. It’s proof that our ancient homo sapiens ancestors “interbred” with Neanderthals. The two species probably met around 60,000 years ago during one of humanity’s pushes out of Africa. Neanderthals would subsequently begin to go extinct. His real name is Robert Banks, a 32-year-old from Bristol, that cultural melting-pot of a port where graffiti art has a long heritage. I always thought maybe someone might put a mural on the wall, but I was never expecting a Banksy," he said. Similarly, the elephant in the room in Los Angeles represents the failure to face the big issues that surround us. Last weekend this week, he smuggled an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantanemo Bay prisoner, into Disneyland in California, to highlight the plight of inmates there.

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Forge into the club’s matrix of lasers and strobe lights, and you’ll find a framed reproduction of CND Soldiers along with other Banksy icons, like the Palestinian ” flower thrower” and the urinating palace guard; built into the wall next to him, the façade of a red telephone box is flanked by a trenchcoat-wearing listener from his Spy Booth mural.

The most probable candidate is Robin Gunningham, a Bristol native of whom associates and former schoolmates have corroborated the rumour. The coincidence has fuelled the belief that our ancient ancestors exterminated Neanderthals, perhaps committing humanity’s first great crime of genocidal violence. However, Britton doesn’t hold to that opinion. Certainly, she doesn’t believe that we caused their extinction in an “intentional act”. There could well have been “inter-species aggression in the same way there was definitely inter-species affection. I’m sure there would have been combat, and that Neanderthals were just as capable as us of making enemies”. On 19 June 2002, Banksy's first Los Angeles exhibition debuted at 33​1⁄3 Gallery, a tiny Silver Lake venue owned by Frank Sosa. The exhibition, entitled Existencilism, was curated by 33​1⁄3 Gallery, Malathion LA's Chris Vargas, Funk Lazy Promotions' Grace Jehan, and B+.Kate Britton feeding a reindeer in the Cairngorms – although wild reindeer went extinct in Britain long ago, the Cairngorm herd are a free-roaming herd of domestic reindeer that were imported to Scotland from Sweden. Image: Kate Britton) Radiocarbon-dating reindeer remains in Assynt bone caves to some 30-35,000 years ago - during a period that was “pre the ice sheet” which would eventually go on to cover the country - hints at the possibility of discovering the greatest imaginable find in Scottish archeology: proof that extinct Neanderthals once walked the land here.