Yeah the Human brain hasn't really changed in the past few thousand years. If we can do it today, we could probably do it back then.
When you see less realistic styles of art glorified in royal history - like the ancient Egyptian artwork on the sidebar, for example - that's the result of ruling class preferences. The Pharaohs probably could have found someone who could draw in a more realistic style, maybe, given enough luck and time, but they decided they wanted the stuff on the right instead.
And because that's what the ruling class went with, that's what we usually learn about later.
This is wildly ahistorical. It's like saying the laws of combustion always existed and therefore someone in 1200CE could have built a car if they wanted, they just preferred horses.
Well I'm looking at a very realistic painting of two guys from the 2nd century AD, ... so it sure seems like at least some people knew how to draw like this back then.
"Anatomically modern humans" are recognized as having been a thing about 450k years ago, and the line between anatomically modern humans and slightly older humans is pretty arbitrary. There's still a ton of debate about when we became as smart as we are.
Yeah the Human brain hasn't really changed in the past few thousand years. If we can do it today, we could probably do it back then.
When you see less realistic styles of art glorified in royal history - like the ancient Egyptian artwork on the sidebar, for example - that's the result of ruling class preferences. The Pharaohs probably could have found someone who could draw in a more realistic style, maybe, given enough luck and time, but they decided they wanted the stuff on the right instead.
And because that's what the ruling class went with, that's what we usually learn about later.
This is wildly ahistorical. It's like saying the laws of combustion always existed and therefore someone in 1200CE could have built a car if they wanted, they just preferred horses.
Well I'm looking at a very realistic painting of two guys from the 2nd century AD, ... so it sure seems like at least some people knew how to draw like this back then.
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"Anatomically modern humans" are recognized as having been a thing about 450k years ago, and the line between anatomically modern humans and slightly older humans is pretty arbitrary. There's still a ton of debate about when we became as smart as we are.
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