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#i'm not quite that experienced but nonetheless: vibes

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

sheilikhal

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

fresne999

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

cymbie8

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

catgirlthecrazy

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

mikkeneko

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

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Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

apolladay

Without searching do you know of a celebrity* that you share a birthday with?

yes

Voting ended onMar 15

*Define celebrity however you'd like.

Also Hey Mick Fleetwood birthday twin 👋🏼

#the two i remembered without looking it up were mark wahlburg and pancho villa

avadaniels

In November 2024, Sam Reich was invited to participate in what he believed to be a promotional interview and photoshoot with Variety magazine. Little did he know…

Game Changer 7x11 "Samalamadingdong"

#the absolute energy of this #gamechanger

viralfrog

callese

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

growing-yet-into-magic

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

growing-yet-into-magic

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

mckitterick

information wants to be free

no-one-offical

@thesightofthestarsmakemesmile

letterbox-sparrow

THERE’S A SEARCH ENGINE FOR THAT

And it’s called SearXNG. It’s a metasearch engine, so it takes information from whatever providers you select and presents it to you as Google might but without ads or tracking, and you can pick which sources it searches, so you could only search Wikipedia and scihub and worldcat and whatnot by default

#future reference tag

negitivemint

i will be thinking abt this for .. so long . so so long .

vethbrenatto

Game Changer + Season 6

dailyanimatedgifs

Avatar: The Last Airbender S03E13: The Firebending Masters

suppermariobroth

In Mario Kart Wii, the giant Luigi statue in Luigi Circuit has collision that exists purely to provide a realistic interaction if a player for some reason decides to throw bananas at it, and is not relevant for gameplay otherwise.

Most notably, the pipe into which Luigi's left leg is going actually has an opening in the collision, allowing the bananas to correctly fall inside it, despite the hole not actually being modeled and instead being merely painted onto the statue. Note the bananas falling down into the pipe next to Luigi's leg.

This amount of effort is likely to go completely unnoticed since a regular player is unlikely to throw even one banana at the statue, much less enough to notice how detailed the interaction is.

cherryysocks

...forgive me, Grace.

skyrim-atmospheres

oblivion scenery - part 17

lady-shikibu

Matt, setting atmosphere: All sense of night and day has been taken from you. You don't know where you're going, where you are, or when you are. Your understanding of the world begins to slip, and you find yourself adrift in darkness-

Caleb: It's 2:00 and we are headed North East.

I played Dispatch!

Always fun to look at the statistics at the end and realize that an event I didn't think could have gone differently was actually relatively rare

Also, I somewhat unintentionally got the very rare "no romance" achievement lol (I feel like Visi is more Robert's type, but Blazer is more my type, so the wires got a little crossed)

#jema says things #dispatch