Scientists can do some pretty amazing stuff. They can see specks of light, suns, that are billions of miles away and figure out, through minute variations in the light they emit, whether they have planets around them, how big those planets are, how close to their sun, how quickly they are orbiting, all sorts of amazing stuff. They can send particles so small we can’t see them at all whizzing through underground tubes between France and Italy at speeds thousands of times what you’d see on any freeway, even in Europe, and know when those particles have split into other particles. I don’t know how they do it, but they’ve got machines for that stuff. They can dig up bones, wrapped in rags, and figure out, due to the rate of nuclear degradation of carbon atoms, how old they are.
She Left Her Mark
Sometimes, though, it comes down to the simple, obvious stuff. Like this.
Now, I am a full grown adult and had thought, up until an hour or so ago, that I had a pretty good idea about the differences between men’s and women’s bodies. But I did not know that men’s ring fingers tend to be longer, slightly, than their index fingers, whereas in women those fingers tend to be the same length.
Apparently, up until a couple of months ago, nobody had actually thought of measuring the fingers of the handprints in the various cave paintings around the world. Everybody thought the artists were the men of the tribes, the hunters, because the drawings were usually of animals.
But, it appears that about 75% of all the cave paintings were done by women. It makes sense. They were probably spending more time in the caves. They are the ones who like to decorate the home.
But, the thing is, 75%/25% is not 100%. Once the idea of painting on walls was invented, probably lots of people tried their hand. Young people, old people, men, women, handicapped people who couldn’t go out on the hunt, proud hunters who were bragging, all sorts.
Sort of like today. They were pre-technological but they were every bit as individual, multi-faceted, and complex as we are. We have no reason to think they weren’t.
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