This web site sets out one case for palpable iconography of a frequency and demonstrability far beyond that to be expected by chance; from an assemblage objectively determined to be cultural and tentatively dated to before the Anglian glaciation of approximately 475,000 years ago.
More often than not, similar claims have been and are systematically ignored, suppressed or otherwise summarily dismissed by archaeologists - but ironically mostly for misguided reasons and usually lacking any substantive basis. This example however, provides compelling and persuasive evidence to support the contention that early hominids incorporated a strategy of pro-actively managing visual ambiguity. Moreover, the collection exhibits characteristic exaggerations which typify early mark making and can be explained by the neurological processes pertaining to visual recognition.
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