[HN Gopher] A piece of symbolic artwork created by Neanderthals:...
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       A piece of symbolic artwork created by Neanderthals: study
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-07-12 07:09 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | wombatmobile wrote:
       | > However, some archaeologists still have doubts that
       | Neanderthals created symbolic art on their own.
       | 
       | TFA quotes a researcher speculating that Neanderthals learned to
       | make art from humans.
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       | We can't know whether this was the case until conclusive evidence
       | is found, which may be never. Until then, we don't see things as
       | they are (inconclusive), we see them as we are (human centric).
        
       | bpodgursky wrote:
       | Species close enough it could interbreed with humans, and with a
       | larger brain.
       | 
       | Dunno why Neanderthal art is "fake until proven intentional".
       | Think I'd start with the opposite prior.
        
         | inglor_cz wrote:
         | Some people just doubt everything by default. But interpreting
         | artifacts of a very different and distant culture is tricky.
         | 
         | I wonder if iPhones get sorted under "ritual artifacts" by the
         | archaeologists of 10.000 AD.
        
           | bpodgursky wrote:
           | Yeah I have nothing against healthy scientific skepticism.
           | This just feels more like asking "Do New Guineans have art?"
           | than "Do coyotes have art?" where the null hypothesis is
           | ".... yes? unless there's something unexpected going on
           | here?"
        
       | re-al wrote:
       | How can bones last 51,000 years?
        
         | tokai wrote:
         | Fossilization. 51k years is not even that old relatively
         | speaking.
        
       | Method-X wrote:
       | I think calling this intentional art is a bit of a stretch.
        
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