(July 26, 2015 at 9:53 pm)Rahul Wrote: Well understanding animals back then was really a life or death situation. I think the vast majority of humans today take animals for granted and even the ones that are really into animals today don't study them as closely as hunter/gatherer groups did in prehistory.
That is what is stated in the article:
Quote:For prehistoric humans, “the observation of animals was not merely a pastime, but a matter of survival,” the study’s authors write. “Compared to artists of latter eras, when people were not as directly connected to nature, the creators of such cave paintings and carvings observed their subjects better and thus they depicted the walk of the animals in a more life-like manner.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-na...153292919/
It is interesting, though, that someone would get the gait correct, as it was not something considered proven until photography from the 1880's established this definitively for horses (a sequence of photos was taken to do this), which has since been shown to be how most 4-legged animals walk (with subsequent photographic studies of them).
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
