Post by mohs on Sept 12, 2018 15:16:33 GMT -5
Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched pattern onto a smooth flake, according to new research published today. It’s now considered the earliest evidence of drawing in the archaeological record.
The drawing, which consists of three red lines intersecting with six other lines, is reminiscent of the pound symbol.
What this cross-hatched pattern meant to the artist is something we may never know,
but as the authors of the new Nature paper point out, it was most definitely an intentional drawing.
It predates previous evidence of drawing by at least 30,000 years
(though the actual figure may be closer to 9,000 years—more on that in just a bit).
Humans, as this discovery makes clear, have been doodling for a very long time.
The drawing, which consists of three red lines intersecting with six other lines, is reminiscent of the pound symbol.
What this cross-hatched pattern meant to the artist is something we may never know,
but as the authors of the new Nature paper point out, it was most definitely an intentional drawing.
It predates previous evidence of drawing by at least 30,000 years
(though the actual figure may be closer to 9,000 years—more on that in just a bit).
Humans, as this discovery makes clear, have been doodling for a very long time.
Or maybe it was the first tic tac toe game?
gizmodo.com/archaeologists-have-found-the-worlds-oldest-known-drawi-1828994249
hopefully the source is trustworthy
The brain thinking abstractly eons ago
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