Post ASRgroXlROvu2t2Qb2 by tikitu@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ASRSwTtIFwLc58RJFA by clive@saturation.social
       2023-02-07T16:42:09Z
       
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       The debate over whether Neanderthals created art is truly fascinating: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/did-neanderthals-make-art/The stalagmite-fragment circles of the Bruniquel Cave are damn interesting
       
 (DIR) Post #ASRUEBKQ6qtzg68F0a by fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe
       2023-02-07T16:56:09Z
       
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       @clive Animals decorate, particularly birds but also chimps do things like adopt jaunty ear leaves as a cultural practice, it's kind of silly to think art and aesthetic arrangements are something unique to humans. So many of our ideas about humans being super special and exceptional are intense narrative distortions/biases created by Christian religious ideas about humans not being animals and that we exist as magical disembodied beings/souls.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASRXFWQ1TtoVEz5Do8 by clive@saturation.social
       2023-02-07T17:30:29Z
       
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       @fifilamoura Yes!
       
 (DIR) Post #ASRgroXlROvu2t2Qb2 by tikitu@mastodon.social
       2023-02-07T19:18:13Z
       
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       @clive Do you know /Kindred/ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes? Lots of really fascinating detail on what we know of Neanderthal society.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASRvBo2sOxXNeO1A8m by clive@saturation.social
       2023-02-07T21:57:43Z
       
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       @tikitu I've heard of it, but never yet read it -- need to! Thank you for the reminder