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I have no idea the specifics but I do think about this a lot. For all we know of all art of the time 99.9% of it was done on wood outside in the elements but a
by handmodel 5y ago
I have no idea the specifics but I do think about this a lot.
For all we know of all art of the time 99.9% of it was done on wood outside in the elements but all those would be destroyed by now.
We have a selection bias issue where we may be looking at a very small fragment of the total art/messaging done at the time.
- tomjakubowski 5y agoThis question makes me wonder if artists at the time understood that cave paintings were pretty durable, and that they intended for these particular works to survive many generations.