Why did people start painting on cave walls long ago?
Cave Painters' Echo
Why did people start painting on cave walls long ago?
Tens of thousands of years ago, deep inside dark caves, people pressed their hands to the stone and left pictures behind. No phones, no books, no paper — and yet, in the flickering glow of a small fire, they painted. The big question is: why?
First, let's clear up one thing. These weren't doodles by bored kids in their bedrooms. The painted caves were often deep, hard-to-reach places — long crawls through darkness to get there. People went out of their way to make these pictures. That tells us the paintings mattered to them. A lot.
