Lmao “No, Ug! Bad! Go draw in cave!”
Now this is a top tier showerthought
30,000+ year old cave painting, Chauvet Cave:
If that’s the worst available, I can’t wait to see what the GOOD stuff is
Maybe a they didnt believe in themselves
How is this not a meme yet?
There are carvings from 60,000 years ago
Back in caveman times, no-one had a smartphone with a torch on it to help see the caves. It was all done using flip-phones with just the screen lit up. Those poor artists :(
Genuinely cool shower thought though, I wonder if it’s true
It’s a pretty funny picture, but why would the bad folk get to go in the cave? It feels to me that most caves would have been highly desirable locations back then.
Prehistoric people leaving things in caves is practically the only way we still know about them, but that doesn’t mean humans normally hung out in caves as a permanent lifestyle. We have evidence of people making wooden structures in Africa long before the first cave paintings—and compared to structures, caves would have been cold and dark, unlikely to be conveniently located, and contested for by cave-adapted animals.
It’s because the caves were so shitty that subsequent people left them untouched for tens of thousands of years.
My question is what if they aren’t human made? There were other similar species that died out and maybe humans are more into expansion than art.
There was a last major migration out of Africa starting around 70–50,000 years ago that coincides with both the disappearance of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and with the appearance of representational art. Earlier Neanderthals made artistic crafts like shell jewelry, but it wasn’t representational.
