Rather a new and different set of thoughts on cave-art and it's many ramifications - I'm not sure I agree, or follow the often circular reasoning and cherry picking here but it's worth the read: [theguardian.com]
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Long but interesting report. A lot of conjecture of what our pre-historic ancestors thought. It seems we give them a much higher thought process than they probably deserved. Perhaps a few more natural predators today might give us a reason to not be so sedentary and value what we have while we have it. Yes, I have read many times that hunter-gatherer societies were more egalitarian than today. They were also cognizant of how their numbers mattered. Their view of nature told them there were only so many of them that an area could support. I strongly believe that is the most devastating we have forgotten when we took up agriculture. Our present, growth based economy has brought that issue to a devastating level.
The essay mentioned the book, "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari. I started to read his 2nd book "Homo Deus" and found it extremely anthropocentric. There was no mention of population and some other issues made me stop after only 1 chapter. Jared Diamond is a superior writer and I have read all his books except his newest, "Upheaval."
JackPedigo
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Dec 14, 2019
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I've always speculated that at least some of it was 'gang graffiti', designed to mark out territory, and warn other Humans away.
davknight
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Dec 14, 2019
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@Allamanda I agree with you 100%, looking at the Australian Aboriginal paintings, etc, I tend to think that they were done both as Territorial Boundary markings and, in many cases, symbolic markings to tell other clans/tribes that these are Meeting Places (Corroboree sites) where all clans and tribes were welcome to come for the exchanging of information and goods, etc, including, possibly, arranging marriages between two 'different skins' to use an aboriginal term that literally means bringing new blood to the clan from another clan.
I tend to think that when Archaeologists stop looking at all the artworks, etc, made by our ancient ancestors and merely labeling them as having 'some kind of spiritual/religious meaning' then we may just get a better understanding of what our ancient ancestors were thinking about when they did these great works of art.
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