jan 1, 40000 BC - Human cognitive development "Great Leap Forward"
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The famous cave paintings in Spain and France (Chauvet, Cosquer, Altamira: radiocarbon dated at 40,000–30,000 years BP) have been the product not of hunters but of consummate, passionate and meticulous artists who shaped an artistic canon which would endure for thousands of years, with very little alterations (Were the First Artists Mostly Women?, National Geographic, 3 October 2013).
Thus far, the oldest example of hand stencilling in the world (39,900 years old) has been found in caves in Sulawesi, Indonesia (Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia, Nature, 8 October 2014).
The magnificent Aboriginal rock art engravings in the Burrup Peninsula of Western Australia may be 30,000 to 40,000 years old (Burrup Peninsula rock art among world’s oldest, Australian Geographic, 18 April 2013; How Old is Australia’s Rock Art?), which proves a long history of creativity for Oceania.
The most ancient flute was carved 43,000 years ago, in Slovenia, by one of the first known Cro-Magnon musicians (see also Ice age lion figurine: Ancient fragment of ivory belonging to 40,000 year old animal figurine unearthed, Science Daily, 30 July 2014).
Read more:
https://medium.com/@stefano_fait/the-first-human-revolution-and-creative-explosion-dfb8c231dd37
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