Cave art discovery in Indonesia force rethink of origin of art.
October 9, 2014 at 1:16 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2014 at 1:17 am by Anomalocaris.)
Discovery of cave painting in Indonesia contemporaneous with earliest cave painting in Europe cast doubt on the supposition that HSS evolved cognitive ability for representational art after leaving Africa, and that representational art first arose in the branch of HSS that went into Europe.
cave art in Indonesia suggests the common ancestors of HSS who went to Asia and HSS who went to Europe, ie the first HSS to leave Africa, already had the faculty to make representation art. So this faculty likely developed in Africa, before the HSS migration out of africa.
cave art in Indonesia suggests the common ancestors of HSS who went to Asia and HSS who went to Europe, ie the first HSS to leave Africa, already had the faculty to make representation art. So this faculty likely developed in Africa, before the HSS migration out of africa.
