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Cave paintings were made primarily as ritual celebrations and expressions of religious imagination, not as attempts to leave a historical legacy.
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Cave ART
Jiang argues that the location of paintings in acoustically powerful cave spaces points to ritual use involving music, dance, and collective religious experience.
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Human religious ritual, Pacific exploration, and cave painting are treated as evidence that humans are not adequately explained as utilitarian primates.
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Cave paintings are treated as purposeful adult religious artworks that express dreams, legacy, mythology, and a cycle of life, death, destruction, renewal, and balance.
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The cave paintings are presented as an imaginative, interconnected depiction of nature rather than a search for strict realism.
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Jiang argues that the location of paintings in acoustically powerful cave spaces points to ritual use involving music, dance, and collective religious experience.
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Jiang interprets bird and animal-human cave figures as shamans channeling the mother goddess and communicating with animals and the spirit world.
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Recurring cave symbols are presented as possible early writing or a common language shared across Ice Age cave art.
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"So we continue our run through of human history today. So last class we did cave paintings and what I will do from now..."
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"We're just a monkey. And what do monkeys do? Monkeys like to have sex. Monkeys like to eat. Monkeys like to fart. That's all..."
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"Aniflame, okay? Bisons and food. But then how do you explain these people, okay? These are people who went to populate the Pacific Islands,..."
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"they hunting why are they using so much resources and time in building these uh ritual sites okay homo sapiens did cave paintings and..."
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"them if you didn't like the situation guess what you'd go somewhere else and start your own organization okay so so early human history..."
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"this in a cave because they want to express themselves they want to leave a legacy they want to leave a memory there's a..."
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"them for the sacrifice by commemorating them the same thing as later on uh when humans fight in battles we build monuments to celebrate..."
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"후보 ok marble here and this is the photo called arte x you can tell this is from theis you know the picture is..."
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"And this started about 30,000 years ago. So these cave paintings were a continuous process where different people at different times went to the..."
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",000 years, meaning that they were just as good back then as they are today. Artistically speaking, humans have not improved at all. Okay?..."
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"And then, so another question is, why did they paint these pictures? And a lot of the clue is this. A lot of the..."
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"pests or insects that attack one tree, this tree will automatically communicate to the other trees and these trees will start to prepare for..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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