And not one picture of the said knifes in the article. When I see this kind of articles I just want to be able to slap the writer for not putting any photos of the discovery.
Turkey is so full of archeological wonders, they can’t dig a hole without finding something.
I was so sad when I saw in one of their museums a section with artifacts recovered from what they called an “emergency escavation” before the scholars had to make way for the new construction that was going to happen on that particular site.
The museum didn’t mince words either, clearly stated something like “what was possible to recover in the emergency escavation”. Now it’s just concrete over it.
So, hunter-gatherer societies used their mouth to hold stuff more frequently then settled ones. Is that the TLDR? And teeth marks from post mortem practices and from eating are distinct from holding stuff with your teeth.
The topographical features of the cave walls could also have inspired the artists’ imagination. Cave dwellers may have experienced pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of seeing unintentional forms in nature, like seeing shapes in clouds. If a bulge of rock looks a little like a horse’s head, the artist might imagine the complete form, filling in the rest of the details.
For example, one newly discovered horse image measures around 460 x 300mm and is painted in red using variably spaced dots. It depicts the head with the corner of the mouth, an eye, an ear, and the beginning of the cervico-dorsal line. The figure makes use of natural features of the cave wall, with cracks in the rock incorporated into the outlines of the head and chest. The cervical-dorsal line adapts to a concave area of the wall.
I guess previously scientists were looking at the art like how you or I might look at a horse drawn on a piece of paper, but some of the art was more like going up to a funny rock sort of shaped like a horse, and adding onto it/altering it in order to show others how much like a horse (or whatever) the funny looking rock is.
Which kind of crossing between artistic mediums, from 2D painting to something more like sculpture.
Anyway, this is cool. I didn’t really consider that someone might do that with their art before reading this article.
I’ve visited several caves with Neolithic art in France and the way they used natural cave forms to accentuate the art was always called out. Holding a flickering torch at various angles would make the animals appear to move and dance.
Archaeologist Lutfi Yondri from the Bureau of Archaeology [id] in Bandung estimated that the constructions at Gunung Padang may have been built sometime between the 2nd and 5th centuries CE, thus in the Indonesian late prehistoric period, whereas Harry Truman Simanjuntak suggested a later date in historical times between the 6th and 8th centuries CE.[9] Pottery fragments found at the site were dated by the Bureau of Archaeology in the range 45 BCE – 22 CE.[10]
Sorry to repeat here, but I am quite suspect too, especially with the journal it is in. I’d expect it to be in something either big or more hyperspecific, like Geoarchaeology. I debated about posting because I think you reported the other, but I am gonna keep it up this time (and I wish I could pin your comment! a cheeky edit title will have to do). I do not have time to dive deeper into the paper tonight, but I want to do that later when my brain isn’t mush, so I think this will also be another reminder for me! ;) It is also good to show people examples of bad science and why which is what this wiki entry does. I want to look at what is actually going on with this thing.
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