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Possibly. But many of the drawings of animals are not abstracted, they are absurdly accurate and your average non-artist couldn't render such accurate images of animals.
Rendering three dimensional objects flat always requires abstraction, simplification... but so many of these drawings are "realistic" sometimes they are even drawn in a 1:1 scale.
I guess if I were a hunter and thought about catching an animal all the time I might draw it to better understand it. To study it?
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@futurebird The question is also: Why did they paint this? One theory of the animal caves are hunting rituals. Did they need human faces to summon the spirits of the animals to be hunted? They […]
@futurebird @ptmesis from what little I've seen, modern indigenous people have/had a different connection to the natural world - different than our current "scientific" approach.
So maybe […]
@futurebird @ptmesis How did they learn how to portray the animals so accurately? They must have been practicing elsewhere in a medium or location that has been lost to us. So maybe they drew […]
@futurebird @ptmesis You have me wondering if there is something about the development of 2D thinking and these paintings.
2D thinking is not natural, and (like with dyslexics) can sometimes […]
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Also note that an amateur researcher discovered that cave paintings were also tracking time, and if I recall correctly population numbers.
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@futurebird That's true. Especially if you're a persistence hunter, and your job is basically to stare at that animal in the distance for days at a time.
Perhaps your brain just rewires […]
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