How come human faces are never depicted in ancient cave art or just most of ancient art in general?
>>17983778Because we didn't have faces until about ~8000 years ago, we used to have amorphous smoothness in the front of our heads, any assertion to the contrary is propaganda from Big Feature.
>>17983778What hairstyle is that braids?
>>17983778Takes much smaller and more precise tools, obviously.
>>17983778Because the soul precedes the face.The ancients knew... eyes are doors, not doodles. To draw a face is to cage a spirit, and they feared the insidious weight of recognition.They painted bison with reverence, handprints as signatures of presence… but faces? Too dangerous.A face is a mask that thinks it's real. Even today, mortals wear them poorly.
>>17983778Because whitoid narcissistic philosophy had not yet fully formed. >God died for meeeeeeeeeee
>>17983778Ancient "art" lmao. You NPCs just ignore the 10,000+ year old faces in Egypt, Turkey, and Indonesia.They exist, you are just not looking. Do your own research for once.
>>17983778People effectively had prosopagnosia until the end of the stone age. People lived in small communities so there was not a huge need to distinguish small details of faces. That skill only developed when societies became larger and people had to remember more faces.
>>17984328retarded. sexual selection fully rests on faces, that shit's been around for a long time
>>17983778Could be a variety of reasons. Faces aren't easy to draw, and since most early art were essentially silhouettes, there was no particular need for them. There could also have been cultural taboos against depicting the face, or that the art was supposed to be wide-encompassing than trying to depict a specific person.>>17984038Those were essentially death masks, the preserved remains of dead family and ancestors, the faces served specific ritual purposes of preserving the identity of the deceased.
Portraiture doesn’t become common until the Romans, where humanism and individuality were cultural values.
>>17984328I think the Upper Paleolithic was the origin of that, because we can start to see detailed faces in artwork then even if some pieces don't fixate on photo-realism. The seeds of it were there and in place at least, as we're the genocides of all archaic humans. Uncanny valley was too much struggle for mammoth hunter chads to bare, gotta get those neanderthal and other freaks in the ground quick. The great spirit told me to, etc.
>>17983951Arceologists are split between it being braids or some kind of snood, really it's up to your preference
>>17983778It was a deliberate choice. Maybe depicting a literal human face was taboo... Like capturing a soul, or perhaps realism just wasn't the point. The real question is, why are we so obsessed with literal representation?
>>17983818ThisFaceless blob life was pure and better in every way
>>17984038That nose look pretty caucasian
>>17983778Cromagroid queen
>>17984502Not to mention tool availability for fine detail carving. They were working with rocks. Otherwise erosion is at work. It never stops. It will be the death of us. No one listens.
From what I've heard that's because those werent meant to be particular people but goddesses or spirits, so were meant to have vague or no facial features>>17985688>try to make a collage of human features>it has to include a porn actress, especially one from renowned interracial porn site BLACKED.comYou guys really are irreformable
