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What assumption has been nullified by the Chauvet cave paintings?

These paintings tell stories of early human experience. They prove that people used paintings to show what their lives were like at the time.

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This short solution explains how the discovery of cave paintings in France proves that people had desires to tell their stories, and had the mind to do it. The artwork describing animals, and daily life are an indication of intelligence in early human behavior.

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The assumption that early people did not have ways or desires to tell a story about their lives is what has been nullified. So has the idea of language having been created in ...

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