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2024-11-24 ┃ RE: futurebird

@futurebird Maybe faces were drawn, but using a medium that doesn't last? If children were drawing, it might have been with sticks in the earth, or maybe they were drawing on surfaces that got washed clean by rain. Since the cave paintings were presumably important, you likely wouldn't let your kids doodle in those places. (Similarly, maybe an individual represented by a face wasn't important enough for inclusion among the figures that presumably represented people as a whole.)

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OK. That seems reasonable. So that makes me ask, why were the drawings done on stone, or carved into stone in places where they could last all over the world mostly drawings of […]

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