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I think whomever this statue represents, would get a cosmic kick out of people, 12000 years into the future, appreciating the majesty of his phallus.
I wonder if it was deliberately humorous, which would add another dimension.
I know that the Incas had statues that were basically hardcore pr0n. I’m not sure the reason. Probably fertility stuff.
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I don't think any other species has the set of facial muscles humans do. Cats seem inscrutable because they have very few; dogs seem more understandable because they can move their eyebrows. I think the non-human animal with the most facial expressions is the chimpanzee, but even then it is much less expressive than a human in this regard. Various mammals have (non-facial) macroexpression somewhat similar to humans,…
I don't think cat faces are all that much less expressive than dog faces. They have a wide variety of facial expressions, including surprise, irritation/anger, happiness, playfulness, anxiety/fear, disgust, and so on - and that's not including at cat body language, especially tail movements. Our cat has perfected the guilt-tripping innocent stare. She stands beside her food bowl looking almost blank. This somehow com…
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I maybe wasn't expecting Bernini level of realism, but "Augustus of Prima Porta" is around 2000 years old which greatly predates Renaissance tooling.
This predates that statute by at least 7,000 years or more.
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I don't think any other species has the set of facial muscles humans do. Cats seem inscrutable because they have very few; dogs seem more understandable because they can move their eyebrows. I think the non-human animal with the most facial expressions is the chimpanzee, but even then it is much less expressive than a human in this regard. Various mammals have (non-facial) macroexpression somewhat similar to humans,…
I think we share a very similar disgust response to other primates primarily and some other mammals as well including dogs.
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How many of these universals are shared with other mammals (especially apes)?
I don't think any other species has the set of facial muscles humans do. Cats seem inscrutable because they have very few; dogs seem more understandable because they can move their eyebrows. I think the non-human animal with the most facial expressions is the chimpanzee, but even then it is much less expressive than a human in this regard. Various mammals have (non-facial) macroexpression somewhat similar to humans,…
What's wild is that we're apparently directly responsible for the eyebrow thing in dogs. As in we literally bred the feature into them.
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1820653116
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogs-eyeb...
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/science/dogs-eyebrows-evo...
I think whomever this statue represents, would get a cosmic kick out of people, 12000 years into the future, appreciating the majesty of his phallus.
It looks like it’s saying that Death is a wanker. I wonder if it was deliberately humorous, which would add another dimension. I know that the Incas had statues that were basically hardcore pr0n. I’m not sure the reason. Probably fertility stuff.
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As I understand it, in that case it is by dating the age of the materials the wood in question was buried in. The minerals are dated using luminescence dating. That tells you when those particles were last exposed to sunlight.
I don’t trust any dating technique that requires the combustion of material.
The changes wrought in the material by sun exposure and subsequent changes over time in the dark are strongly repeatable.
That's not what I consider a "realistic human statue" ?
Can you think of any artistic depiction of a human from that era that is more detailed? Humans in cave paintings are basically stick men.
They're more than just stick figures, they detail ceremonial costumes quite well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwion_Gwion_rock_paintings
* Dating the spectrum of paintings is broad.
Experimental OSL dates from a wasp nest overlaying a tassel Gwion Gwion figure has given a Pleistocene date of 17,500 ± 1,800 years BP. The academic community generally accepts 5,000 BP for the end of the artistic style. If the date ranges are correct, this may demonstrate that the Gwion Gwion tradition was produced for many millennia.