This is the world's oldest known drawing

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/12/this-is-the-worlds-oldest-kn.html

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I can’t wait for the caveperson to come back to life and be all, like, “Nah, brah! You have it upside down!”

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It’s mesmerizing.

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Pfft. I can draw better than that, and I’m not even 73,000 years old.

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three slightly curved lines, eh? saucy.

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That’s four lines

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73,000 years ago, “three” just meant “many”.

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copyright it! …faster!

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Cavedude: How many days has she made me sleep on this cave sofa?

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That’s actually amazing. It’s so detailed I would think it was a photo of a rock instead of a drawing.

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Well, it sucks.

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this made me finally look up ocher; it’s dirt mixed with varying amounts of one or another kind of oxide, making for coloring ranging from brown to reddish. It was a common pigment for your prehistoric Bob Ross:

Sadly there are no green ochers, because that would be the place to be.

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“Nearby, archaeologists discovered the shattered skull of the world’s first known art critic.”

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They think the cause of death was probably involuntary bludgeoning…

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Just some lines. Earliest known barcode.

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Papasaaaaaaaaaannn.

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Yes. But the artist is dead, so it’s now valuable.

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Art-living! The life for me!

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