Sunday, January 5, 2014

FB status Oct11 2013: women as cave painters?

noting an interesting development in anthropology, and how fast the conversation then degenerated from "these were amazing mystical power-drawings" to "well, of course, they wanted to decorate the caves they were stuck in all day while the men did interesting and brave things outside" : P ...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/
"Were the first artists mostly women?" (Nat'l Geographic seems to have been a primary source for the info quoted around the web at this time ... tho' the comments at Jezebel were way funnier ;) ... and less irritating(!).)
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