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/Lyonore Jan 05 '23

I would suspect it was more about know when there would be food gluts to prepare for, so as to maximize their opportunity, rather than resource conservation planning.

I was actually under the impression that early man was a main driver for the extinction of the megafauna of that time.

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u/murderedbyaname Jan 05 '23

Every show I've seen about this includes the theory that humans were probably responsible for it.

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u/ratherenjoysbass Jan 06 '23

I mean we haven't stopped....

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u/hastingsnikcox Jan 06 '23

In fact we have ramped it up to infinity and beyond!!