Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by jacobwilliamroy on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:18PM (#21775946)

>people who lived in ancient France were drawing wild animals such as rhinos and lions.

My guess is that when Homo sapien met the people who live in caves, they got to talking about africa and one human was trying to explain rhinocerous and after a while they got frustrated and said "no you're still not getting it. Give me that ink over there, I'll show you."

And then they drew the rhino and also a group of people, for scale.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by jboggan on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:45PM (#21776875)

Or maybe they were just drawing the extant megafauna that had not yet been hunted to extinction [0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_rhinoceros

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by arkitaip on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:26PM (#21776682)

Or maybe they were enjoying a game of pictionary.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by crooked-v on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:15PM (#21777946)

On that note, it's kind of fascinating to consider that ancient humans (both homo sapiens and other human species) almost certainly had their own variations of currently universal party games like charades, would you rather, etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by Mikeb85 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:08PM (#21777084)

There used to be rhinos and lions in Europe...

[ Parent | on HN ]