Whenever I see photos of drawings made by cavemen (animals usually) they tend to be really good. Most people can't draw nearly as good nowadays, but our cavemen ancestors could, why?
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If the medium is expensive, only the best pieces gets displayed there.
Cave walls was a limited commodity so only the best of best were allowed to display it there. Sure, sometimes amateurs were allowed to be involved but their activities didn't take a lot of skills ( http://matadornetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/informationtech-cavepainting.jpg ), they just blew paint onto their hands.
Look at local gallery and you can see comparisons.
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So there are a lot of theories about cave paintings but the one that I subscribe to is perhaps the most intriguing. In order to explain this I want you to imagine a bathroom in school or seedy bar. There is always graffiti. There are drawings of all sorts of things and inscriptions detailing the history of usage for that particular latrine. I posit that ancient cave paintings are of the same origin. Cave men lived in caves so where did they go to the bathroom? In that cave of course! And while they were doing their business they would doodle and that's where cave paintings come from. They are just the "Johnny was here" of 10,000 BC. We even find evidence of this in other ancient cultures. Stalls in unearthed portions of pompeii are covered with ancient graffiti (much of it sexual in nature).
Wait, What year is it? Am I too late for this? Well my sources are 10,000 BC, The scorpion King, and Year 1 so that makes this ok right?
