Re: Teenage delinquents responsible for paleolithic cave art?

While female artists accounted for less than 20 percent of the cave
art, they were being creative in other ways, researchers say.


"What we find in the fossil record doesn't always represent what was
going on," Guthrie said. "Prior to the pottery age, women in all
societies are working in things that don't preserve very well, such as
skins and braiding fiber."
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LOL! Strong assertion X 'they were being creative in other ways'
followed by feeble excuse why there's no evidence for it Y.

If there's no evidence for women doing anything, why make the claim
that they were all working on things that aren't preserved?

You might just as well say that all the teenage chaps were busy weaving
coir mats too - there is as much evidence for it as for what is said.

Not, of course, that I think that they are likely to be wrong, it's
just the fatuity of their claim that impresses me - they could have had
the odd disclaimer - 'we think', or 'probably', making such claims
makes the researchers and journalists appear foolish and stupid.

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