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Re: ABORIGINES?
Bob Keeter (b_keeter@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us)
1 Oct 1996 13:24:38 GMT
ritesh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Joseph S Grossberg) wrote:
>I'm not particularly interested in whehter or not the claims are
>legitimate (for this thread's sake) but instead have this question-- why
>is everyone assuming that men/Aborigines/homo sapiens sapiens created the
>rock art? Could not have a hominid slightly "lower" than (and
>subsequently supplanted by) mankind have created the art?
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In some circles, the ability to create art is one of the prime
differentiators between Homo Sapiens and "hominids slightly lower
than mankind". As a matter of fact, I have read several discussions
where the association of cave art with modern man was one of the
main distinctions (aside from skeletal material) separating modern
man and Neanderthals.
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>This would not throw a monkey wrench into current paleoanthropological
>thought, and I'm surprised it hasn't been forwarded as an explanation by
>the more skeptical members of the anthropological world.
>
You might as well suggest Pithecantropus doing Piccasso's! 8-) Afraid
that "early men" just did not build shrines, do art, etc (at least not
in the more accepted theories!).
Regards
bk
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