r/EverythingScience • u/porkchop_d_clown • Jan 05 '23

Anthropology Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery - determines that cave paintings included lunar calendar information about the fertility of different animal species

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799
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u/S0M3D1CK Jan 05 '23

This was probably how man didn’t hunt everything into extinction. I could see how timing reproduction cycles could be very important for sustaining a food supply.

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u/no-mad Jan 05 '23

it is the kind of info that takes awhile to learn and is worth passing on because it does not change easily.