nightbringer117:

transmechanicus:

if-you-think-about-it:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

I’m firmly convinced that there are certain archaeological artifacts we’ll never fully understand because what sparked their creation was some prehistoric craftsperson thinking to themselves “hey, you know what would be fucked up?”

Now, I hear you object: any complex prehistoric artifact that’s survived to the present day would almost certainly be made of stone worked without the benefit of modern tools, representing hundreds of hours of labour. Surely no-one living in a subsistence hunter-gatherer society had that kind of time and energy to spend on indulging a bizarre whim. To this I ask: have you ever spoken to an artist in your life?

Giant stone ax lmao

Paleolithic guillotine

A pick for the world’s largest ever guitar. Unfortunately, being made of wood and animal hides, the instrument did not survive in the archeological record.

one of my partners once took me on a hike through a national park full of big old boulders covered all over with ancient drawings (petroglyphs)– they were all pictures of the weirdest randomest stuff– abstract designs, made-up animals, hands with weird numbers of fingers, incomprehensible doodles and scribbles, etc

the local native people attach profound meanings to them, and lots of people speculate what the intent could have been, but afaik no one knows for sure exactly

but I know that if I had lived in that time and place, with my same hyperactive imagination and creative drive, but no sketchbooks and pencils to record all my imaginary worlds– I WOULD have been that one weird villager who goes and sits in the outskirts of town drawing stuff on rocks all day.

(note: this does NOT negate the idea that the petroglyphs do have profound meanings. If you cannot see profound meanings in the creative scribblings of an autistic artist then we are too different to communicate, IDK what to tell you)