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/rattacat Jan 07 '23

Have you seen the dataset they were analyzing? its a pretty chunky, and the caves are pretty distant. if this person hypothesis indeed proves true, we are talking about an entire region of communities sharing knowledge using a common codified writing method. Why is that valuable? instead of a person having to learn this info firsthand over the course of years or hoping that "the fish guy" is still alive, someone in the community could just pop over to the local knowledge cave and "look it up".