It has always struck me that one of the more popular definitions of what separates Homo Sapiens from other mammals is our ability to produce abstract art. More than 70 000 years ago, beach dwellers at Blombos on the southern coast, created a ‘cross-hatched pattern drawn with an ochre crayon on a ground silcrete flake’. In short: they created art. As I explain in Chapter 2 of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom, the Blombos artwork suggests that these men and women, before they exited Africa to populate the world, had all the features of cognition and behaviour that we associate with ourselves today.
The future of art
The future of art
The future of art
It has always struck me that one of the more popular definitions of what separates Homo Sapiens from other mammals is our ability to produce abstract art. More than 70 000 years ago, beach dwellers at Blombos on the southern coast, created a ‘cross-hatched pattern drawn with an ochre crayon on a ground silcrete flake’. In short: they created art. As I explain in Chapter 2 of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom, the Blombos artwork suggests that these men and women, before they exited Africa to populate the world, had all the features of cognition and behaviour that we associate with ourselves today.