Maybe prehistoric cave paintings were actually the worst paintings of their time, because bad artists were forced to practice in caves where no one could see them.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmao “No, Ug! Bad! Go draw in cave!”

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• negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  30,000+ year old cave painting: Chauvet Cave:
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  If that’s the worst available, i can’t wait to see what the GOOD stuff is

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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is this not a meme yet?

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe a they didnt believe in themselves

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are carvings from 60,000 years ago

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• Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Back in caveman times, no-one had a smartphone with a torch on it to help see the caves. It was all done using flip-phones with just the screen lit up. Those poor artists :(

  Genuinely cool shower thought though, I wonder if it’s true

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• Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a pretty funny picture, but why would the bad folk get to go in the cave? It feels to me that most caves would have been highly desirable locations back then.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Prehistoric people leaving things in caves is practically the only way we still know about them, but that doesn’t mean humans normally hung out in caves as a permanent lifestyle. We have evidence of people making wooden structures in Africa long before the first cave paintings—and compared to structures, caves would have been cold and dark, unlikely to be conveniently located, and contested for by cave-adapted animals.

    It’s because the caves were so shitty that subsequent people left them untouched for tens of thousands of years.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My question is what if they aren’t human made? There were other similar species that died out and maybe humans are more into expansion than art.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was a last major migration out of Africa starting around 70–50,000 years ago that coincides with both the disappearance of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and with the appearance of representational art. Earlier Neanderthals made artistic crafts like shell jewelry, but it wasn’t representational.

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