Re: Photo recognition

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Representations of specific individuals also appear in Maya stonework
(but not murals?) and I was told in the famous moai/big stone heads of
Easter Island. Both chiefdom+. No specific representations until
stratification and political centralization? Fascinating.

Tom Love 45N, 123W
Dept. Soc/Anth
Linfield College
McMinnville, OR 97128
tlove@linfield.edu

On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Richard Spear wrote:

> Curiouser and curiouser ... I would think that groups already
> producing lifelike images would be able to recognise a likeness if
> shown one ... the Benin of West Africa at the turn of the century or
> the Moche of eighth century Peru, for example. Realistic depictions
> may be limited to groups identified as chiefdoms or (nascent)
> states. This puts an interesting evolutionary spin on this topic. All
> speculative, of course ...
>
>
> Richard
>

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