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Littlestone
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Re: Hardwired
Mar 08, 2006, 22:03
>...a tendency to perceive faces doesn't have to lead to the placement of any significance.<

Quite. Whether or not there is a predisposition in humans to recognise facial simulacra in trees, rocks etc is really not relevant to this discussion (any more than a predisposition in humans to hunt lends argument to the moral justification to do so). What <i>is</i> important is the cultural backdrop that may have influenced the creators of rock art and megalithic structures in their choice of medium and the way they chose to manipulate it.

I'm sorry to have to repeat myself but 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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