@JetlagJen
I'm deeply skeptical of suggestions that humans in prehistory were mentally radically different from modern humans.
They had memes and jokes. They wondered how things worked and had aspirations and dreams. They loved each other and had little conflicts we could recognize I suppose.
But, the absence of faces makes me second guess that notion a little.
As if, were I a person of that time, I might not recognize the landscape of thoughts I might inhabit.
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@futurebird @JetlagJen Hmm. Re: not depicting what is clearly present …
If these pictures were part of communicating: communication uses (and creates) language, presumably a social construct […]
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@JetlagJen
I feel like that's another thing that has to do with population density. The more people there are around you the more weight human interactions will have on determining […]
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I also remember a bit from the story of Ishi’s life, that depictions for First Nations photographs and such were perceived as capturing the soul of the person, and very […]
@futurebird there is an easy trap to fall into around assuming early humans were "just" animals, and I definitely don't want to invoke that.
But at *some* point, we diverged from our common […]
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