Welcome to EyeBallMania. T-Shirts for those who dare to be different!
Each week we will give a short history of an “Eye” that has influenced and changed our planet. Eyeball drawings for our t-shirts are made following a strict set of rules so that they maintain the quality and look we at EyeBallMania have set as our standard. In the beginning, not a pun, the drawings were destined for a history book for kids so that they could learn in a fun way about their ancestors and those who later would make different types of contributions to mankind. People who looked at the drawings started saying that the eyes would look great on t-shirts. Some thought went into this and EyeBallMania was born.
The first eye in our upcoming series, and will eventually be the first Eye in our history book, is Cro-Magneye. Come back often for more in-depth profiles of all of our parodies of Eyes Through the Ages.
Cro-Magnon t-shirt. Over the past few million years, nature has tried out a number of different types of two-legged, upright walking, opposable thumbed creatures with larger brains with us being one of them. While we where making our way out of Africa to populate the world we ran into an other humanoid, Cro-Magnon who was already living throughout Europe and parts of Asia. We really don’t know how these two different species interacted. Some have said peacefully and others, well things didn’t work out to well in the, welcome to the neighborhood, nice to see someone new, I’m sure we can work things out, kinds of way. Based on the fact that we keep fighting among ourselves all the time now, things probably didn’t go to well and Cro-Magnon disappeared off the face of the planet and was forgotten with our species taking over.
In the 15 and 1600’s when we finally stopped torturing and killing people for saying such things as “I think the Earth goes around the sun,” “Aristotle might be wrong,” or “I have an idea that could change things,” mankind started to make great leaps forward in science and technology. One thing that became clear was that animals could actually go extinct (something we as humans have learned to do very efficiently to large number of different species who are no longer with us.) Fossils had always been found but no one could figure out what they were. The Chinese found dinosaur fossils and dragons became part of their culture. Europeans were also finding dinosaur bones and slaying fire-breathing dragons became part of their myths. In the eighteen hundreds scientists finally started putting all of the “pieces” together and realized for the first time that they were looking at ancient forms of life. This enlightenment would then help stop some of the practices that had been happening around the world like grinding up fossils and eating them as medicine to help cure various aliments. (If you think that’s weird, look up what people were doing with mummies when they first found them in Egypt and why people eat rhinoceros horns today.)
Fragments of Cro-Magnon bones were being found throughout Europe but no one could figure out what they were. That changed in 1868, when French geologist Louis Lartet started digging at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, southwest France, at a spot on the side of a hill that had rocks sticking out of it making a perfect shelter. Lartet discovered five skeletons in the rock shelter that the local residents called Cro-Magnon. (If you can’t figure out at this point how Cro-Magnon got its name then you probably can’t figure this out; there are three kinds of people, those that can count and those that can’t.)
The skeletons Lartet found showed many characteristics that we modern humans have a high forehead, upright posture and slender skeleton. But the teeth and jaws were larger. The bones showed that Cro-Magnon had slightly larger muscles. The base of the skull where the backbone joins is in a slightly different position, but one that would have made speech much more difficult. As more Cro-Magnon skeletons were discovered in Europe and Asia, artifacts started to be found with their remains. Tools have been found that suggest that they knew how to weave clothing. Use animal skin. Have a varied diet of meat, grain, vegetables. Construct shelters and to paint pictures inside of caves.
Cro-Magnon lived 40,000 to 10,000 years ago and would be what many would call caveman. Dinosaurs died out 65 million years before Cro-Magnon walked on this planet. So when you see those movies with cave people fighting off a Tyrannosaurus, it just didn’t happen for real.
Note: Caveman is a bad term. Nobody wants to live in a cave if they can help it. Caves are usually damp, dark and cold and can have rather large animals living in them that could ruin your day. People like Cro-Magnon lived at the entrances to caves or natural rock shelters that kept you dry and out of the rain and snow.
Another note: For a time, people in the United States who had TB (Tuberculosis) lived in one of the largest cave systems in the world, Mammoth Caves in Kentucky because it was felt that the damp cool air would help cure them. Today Mammoth Caves is a National Park you can visit and see the remains of the hospital and go spelunking.
Each week we will give a short history of an “Eye” that has influenced and changed our planet. Eyeball drawings for our t-shirts are made following a strict set of rules so that they maintain the quality and look we at EyeBallMania have set as our standard. In the beginning, not a pun, the drawings were destined for a history book for kids so that they could learn in a fun way about their ancestors and those who later would make different types of contributions to mankind. People who looked at the drawings started saying that the eyes would look great on t-shirts. Some thought went into this and EyeBallMania was born.
The first eye in our upcoming series, and will eventually be the first Eye in our history book, is Cro-Magneye. Come back often for more in-depth profiles of all of our parodies of Eyes Through the Ages.
Cro-Magnon t-shirt. Over the past few million years, nature has tried out a number of different types of two-legged, upright walking, opposable thumbed creatures with larger brains with us being one of them. While we where making our way out of Africa to populate the world we ran into an other humanoid, Cro-Magnon who was already living throughout Europe and parts of Asia. We really don’t know how these two different species interacted. Some have said peacefully and others, well things didn’t work out to well in the, welcome to the neighborhood, nice to see someone new, I’m sure we can work things out, kinds of way. Based on the fact that we keep fighting among ourselves all the time now, things probably didn’t go to well and Cro-Magnon disappeared off the face of the planet and was forgotten with our species taking over.
In the 15 and 1600’s when we finally stopped torturing and killing people for saying such things as “I think the Earth goes around the sun,” “Aristotle might be wrong,” or “I have an idea that could change things,” mankind started to make great leaps forward in science and technology. One thing that became clear was that animals could actually go extinct (something we as humans have learned to do very efficiently to large number of different species who are no longer with us.) Fossils had always been found but no one could figure out what they were. The Chinese found dinosaur fossils and dragons became part of their culture. Europeans were also finding dinosaur bones and slaying fire-breathing dragons became part of their myths. In the eighteen hundreds scientists finally started putting all of the “pieces” together and realized for the first time that they were looking at ancient forms of life. This enlightenment would then help stop some of the practices that had been happening around the world like grinding up fossils and eating them as medicine to help cure various aliments. (If you think that’s weird, look up what people were doing with mummies when they first found them in Egypt and why people eat rhinoceros horns today.)
Fragments of Cro-Magnon bones were being found throughout Europe but no one could figure out what they were. That changed in 1868, when French geologist Louis Lartet started digging at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, southwest France, at a spot on the side of a hill that had rocks sticking out of it making a perfect shelter. Lartet discovered five skeletons in the rock shelter that the local residents called Cro-Magnon. (If you can’t figure out at this point how Cro-Magnon got its name then you probably can’t figure this out; there are three kinds of people, those that can count and those that can’t.)
The skeletons Lartet found showed many characteristics that we modern humans have a high forehead, upright posture and slender skeleton. But the teeth and jaws were larger. The bones showed that Cro-Magnon had slightly larger muscles. The base of the skull where the backbone joins is in a slightly different position, but one that would have made speech much more difficult. As more Cro-Magnon skeletons were discovered in Europe and Asia, artifacts started to be found with their remains. Tools have been found that suggest that they knew how to weave clothing. Use animal skin. Have a varied diet of meat, grain, vegetables. Construct shelters and to paint pictures inside of caves.
Cro-Magnon lived 40,000 to 10,000 years ago and would be what many would call caveman. Dinosaurs died out 65 million years before Cro-Magnon walked on this planet. So when you see those movies with cave people fighting off a Tyrannosaurus, it just didn’t happen for real.
Note: Caveman is a bad term. Nobody wants to live in a cave if they can help it. Caves are usually damp, dark and cold and can have rather large animals living in them that could ruin your day. People like Cro-Magnon lived at the entrances to caves or natural rock shelters that kept you dry and out of the rain and snow.
Another note: For a time, people in the United States who had TB (Tuberculosis) lived in one of the largest cave systems in the world, Mammoth Caves in Kentucky because it was felt that the damp cool air would help cure them. Today Mammoth Caves is a National Park you can visit and see the remains of the hospital and go spelunking.
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