OR BRAVE
brutes? Been there, done that.
But not quite to that degree … unqualified … (I’m a modern)—
—and what is so impressive here is how ancient stone-age brutes could not only create immaculate (and gorgeous!) works of true art but they could do it so far underground, with nary an LED, tungsten filament or pressure lantern among the lot of ’em.
But art is a digression.
Now:
just look at the scale of the wee enterprise in the image above.
Blow it up large if you have to, then ponder tools, methods, motivations. If you mutter “WTF” please feel free to add “HTF”, which makes better sense ‘cos the ‘wot’ is already established—it’s the ‘How’ that intrigues me, leavened on occasion with an occasional ‘Why?’. (YTF?)
a modern, boldly going where no man has gone for many thousands of years …
ARCHAEOLOGY IS
often an ‘assumptive’ science. I.e. guesswork. Is it such a good thing?*
Further still, size is only a crude measure of the power of a brain. After all, our own brains have shrunk by 10% since the last ice age. Analysis of the H. naledi skull has provided evidence that their brains may have undergone substantial organization and specialization like the brains of our immediate ancestors did …
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Artistic ability, size of brain, lust for adventure, stupidity? Are these qualities that define us as humans? Certainly they seem uncomfortably timeless …
If the singer sets the scale … them hairless apes were pretty dam’ tall …
WHEN I DID MY OWN
cave exploring it was from curiosity. No other reason, I was young, stupid**; and no, I didn’t leave any souvenirs or cave ‘art’ …
… and I didn’t find God.
Argus … you didn’t go down deep enough~!
* Your guess is as good as mine …
** by today’s standards
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