I'm speaking very broadly, about tens of thousands of years of human history across multiple continents and contexts. And where you find the fine careful paintings of wildlife you DO NOT find human faces.
I think it says that people must not have felt motivated to make such drawings of the face, that they didn't like it or see it as useful.
They also didn't do drawings of IDK, insects very often. Insects were not as important as the large animals they hunted and that hunted them.
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@futurebird Is it possible that it was seen as taboo?
@futurebird odd too because you also get those beautiful hand stencils, where someone's placed their hand against the wall and blown or spat pigment over it to leave what seems to be, from my […]
@futurebird except for bees i.e. honey
@futurebird You can see some stick figures in profile with spears or bows and arrows hunting their prey, but they don't seem to put the same effort into them. Maybe because people were all […]
@futurebird Vallée des merveilles, Parc du Mercantour. This is from neolithic though. Anyway assuming some kind of universal taboo on faces in paleolithic seems very audacious. Keep in mind […]
@futurebird What are the earliest documented face paintings?
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But it still is very strange since when modern children start drawing one of the first things they will draw are faces.
Faces dominate our minds, the brain seems to process faces in special […]
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