• @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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      142 months ago

      Yeah, I saw that rebuttal and it seemed pretty strange to me.

      They couldn’t have been sculpting from their own perspective, because they technically had access to viewing themselves from a third-person perspective?

      We technically had access to drawing with linear perspective all along, but somehow until only a few hundred years ago, this is the best we could do:

      It just seems like a very modern-biased way of thinking about depiction. Mapping objective reality (rather than subjective perception) into art is a relatively new concept.

      • @chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 months ago

        It’s missing some of the argument. Part of the idea is pre writing humans passing down successful pregnancy and reproductive information. Women obviously died from childbirth back then as they do now. One theory is that these women were trying to pass down some information of perhaps considered successful childbirth.

        There have been times in relatively recent history where incorrect information about pregnancy was being passed down, plus a larger woman would be getting more nutrients in that time than malnourished women. An easy conclusion to make may uave just been to eat alot and be larger.