The Caveman's Dictionary
by Quentin Moseley
December 1 - January 29, 2011

In 1993 and 1994, our team of archeologists excavated a miraculous new cave site with two murals dating from the upper Paleolithic period. The two murals seemed purposely paired and composed to separately yet complementarily emphasize male and female human figures along with corresponding abstract signs and symbols. The familiar animals of the cavemen artists were placed along-side the mainly human subjects.

This was astounding! In previously discovered cave murals, with their emphasis on mainly images of cavorting animals, there has been shown only an occasional and often secondary concern with the human image. Also buried at the foot of these spectacular murals were fetish artifacts and so called “Venus” figurines that were carefully placed to support the seemingly sexually oriented and obsessed images of the murals. What is apparent is that though animals are in the background of the newly discovered murals, they seem there to support the joyous exposition of human sexuality, perhaps as if to say, “If the bovines and equines ‘Do It’, so do we!”

Since these early discoveries in 1993, in the nearly eighteen years since, our team has explored and excavated many other sites. These later excavations have revealed scores of “Rosetta-like” stones that create compact narratives of both representational and abstract signs that witness and explain man’s ongoing development of attitudes about sex, life and magic from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic and possibly now to our own Technolithic times. We have decided to call this homogenous pantheon of characters, signs, and stones “The Caveman’s Dictionary”.

Our excavations and subsequent research has concluded that the “pages” or stones of “The Caveman’s Dictionary” are a codex that reveal the true meaning and magic of the universe that answers the ageless question “Why Sex?” By bringing forth visions of the caveman’s continuous obsession with male and female sexual and practical function, these images seem to place man and woman into a oneness with the universe of stone, bone, life, nature and the animals revealing an egalitarian life between the sexes of mutual benefit, adoration and spirituality.

Here we give credit to our staff artist, Quentin Moseley, who accompanied our archeologists on five different digs. He has made extraordinary efforts to render these cave murals and the many wonderful stone carvings, along with their accompanying sculptural objects to deliver the full impact of the meaning of the sites and spectacular “magical” images our team has discovered.