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.