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Littlestone
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Hardwired
Mar 06, 2006, 21:36
I think it was FourWinds who suggested on another thread recently that we are hardwired to see faces in things (stones, trees etc). Apologies FW if it wasn't you. This idea's been kicking around for a while but it bothers me a bit. A brief look at both 'prehistoric' art and art from cultures outside the Greco-Roman influence would suggest that mankind, for most of the time, was more interested in the animal kingdom, or the grandeur of nature, than faces in rocks or trees.

I guess what I'm suggesting is that if we're ever going to get close to what rock art (or megaliths) might have meant to the people who created them we have to start from the premises of what might have been the most important things in their lives.
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