@futurebird and what about a cultural learning explanation? Like, what you needed to learn was about animals, recognize them, learn to hunt them, etc. And just as when you draw a technical drawing you put more effort onto the machine schematic and people are faceless or featureless , they put more effort in the animals as it was the principal reason to draw? After all, recognize an animal and learn how to hunt it was a matter of life or death, while social interaction (through emotion learning) was not (as opposed to later time, maybe). So you get art and learning as one and the same in this case.
Maybe would be interesting to study the movement in the art depiction of things as city develops and social interaction becomes more prevalent than hunting for most of the people with time.
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