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> A culture without writing doesn’t produce a written record of its history But... they can still draw it. And they did it a lot in the caves. We have careful
by pvaldes 2y ago
> A culture without writing doesn’t produce a written record of its history
But... they can still draw it. And they did it a lot in the caves. We have careful pictures of recognizable species of animals, sculptures and strange pictograms that could depict particular concepts so they take the same role as words. We even have entire narratives about hunter campaigns drawn in the cave walls with a specific number of male humans, dogs and specific animals chased, and how they chased it. Even their personal objects were shown. In this sense, this is literature. Sort of. Is just that we can't read all the symbols and can't know if those symbols had a sound attached, but we can understand easily a lot of the history depicted.
- AlbertCory 2y ago> they can still draw it. yes, and we should study those and learn what we can. As people are doing. However, the picture we get is pretty fuzzy, and there's no good way to increase the resolution sans DNA evidence or other newer techniques.
- AmericanChopper 2y ago> But... they can still draw it The study of ancient drawings is archeology, which I mentioned. It’s a useful historical resource, but only paints a very limited picture of a history all by itself.