Posts Tagged ‘paleolithic period’

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters. India’s Oldest Art Gallery

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters.  India’s Oldest Art Gallery

Our adoption of agriculture and the concomitant ‘civilization’ began barely 10,000 years ago. Therefore historian’s obsession with this tiny sliver of our past, often at the expense of over 7 million years of cave dwelling, is truly astounding.

What is more remarkable is the view now increasingly held by many important biologists is that we were probably more successful as hunters and gatherers.