Comment by dominictorresmo
7 hours ago
Amazing that some of those paintings have a very good quality. They really trained for a long time before making some of those drawings, so they are much more intelligent than I think they were
7 hours ago
Amazing that some of those paintings have a very good quality. They really trained for a long time before making some of those drawings, so they are much more intelligent than I think they were
> so they are much more intelligent than I think they were
Pardon me, but we are talking about homo sapiens here? Those people would be not different then you and me. If you would raise one of their child's today it would just blend in. They were/are the same species then you and me... I just want to say please don't ride that all cavemen were stupid apes train. That boot sailed a long time ago regarding to modern science.
Yes, but they didn't have art schools, museums, supplies and they didn't doodle in boring classes or meetings. They didn't have an "art tradition" - or at least not in the way we do now - they had invented it themselves.
If Rembrandt, Raphael or Warhol were born back then they wouldn't have had the cultural milieu to create the same things.
Funny anecdote, that when Picasso visited these places in southern France, he said: we have learned nothing.
Or something similar. Compare it with his style when he got older. It's related.
> Those people would be not different then you and me.
We know that good nutrition during childhood has a significant impact on IQ, as does avoiding parasite infections. Those ancients were the same species as us, but it is also known that that they likely suffered from food precarity at times and endemic infections, so the belief they had their shit less together than many modern populations is reasonable.
ow that's awesome I didn't know that. Sorry but my perspective of them are from movies and cartoons and they always make they look very dumb
I wont blame you, but if you are interested, then have a look at recent documentaries about the topic. The German/French TV station "Arte" sometimes has the content in english too and other European languages.... They cover neolithic and bronze age quiet regular because we have many of these and other sites...
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