misterprickles, Fascinating study that attempts to explain why #ancient humans painted the walls of #caves
I still wonder if there's a bit of survivorship bias here. Maybe we only find paintings of such antiquity because they lay undisturbed for so long. What if our ancestors painted every surface they could lay a brush on, yet only these survived?
https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-our-ancestors-make-startling-art-in-dark-firelit-caves