Detailed illustrations of lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. Wikimedia Commons
Detailed illustrations of lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. Wikimedia Commons
Humans couldn’t have advanced without some millennial post-modern nonsense added to ancient thought even ‘fore it was thunk up.
30,000 years ago, or up to 40,000 years ago. That’s a long-long way back for humans. And yet the art in some of these cave paintings is surprisingly sophisticated.
It’s really quite remarkable, when you think about it. The concept of representing something from the real world that is three-dimensions with a drawing on a two-dimensional surface. The very idea of outlining a creature to represent its boundaries is pretty abstract. When did that idea of abstract representation of real objects first occur? How did the idea spread?
Besides cave art, being patiently detail oriented is probably necessary to making arrows and other necessary tools.
A tribe which had good makers of tools and weapons had a big advantage.
Down to the last detail: How our ancestors with autistic traits led to the formation of the democrat party
These take a minute. Hastily drawn stick figures indicate not a lot of time for such frivolity as detail. Someone with a full belly noticed the common stick figures didn’t really look like the depicted animal. He noticed depth and perspective. He spent some time expressing his detailed observations. That’s all they are. The artist had time for more than hunting and gathering. Maybe he was too noisy in the woods and would scare the game, so they left him in the cave. Just observations here, but you could go a long way before blaming autism.
I failed to believe that “attention to detail” is strictly under the purview of autism.
supposedly Neanderthal genes play a major part in modern humans’ immune systems:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thank-neanderthals-your-immune-system-180957761/
Thanks for the thread.
This is what I hate about “archeology” today. They find the erroneous need to explain motives and causes behind things for which the motives and causes are clearly unknowable. To claim the ice age cave dwellers were “autistic” is beyond dumb and stupid. Call it a “crime” to archeology.
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