Meredith Laing
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Meredith Laing
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Archaeologist by inclination (MA in Public Arch, doctoral research into prehistoric kids, fingerprints and burials), Prehistoric Society Secretary, currently a lawyer by profession (don’t judge me: I have kids to support!)
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Love this! Palaeolithic equivalent of putting the kids’ artwork on the fridge for a few weeks?!
marckissel.bsky.social Marc Kissel @marckissel.bsky.social · Dec 17
so basically the paleolithic version of "look kids I have a Zoom meeting so can you *please* keep yourselves entertained for the next 30 minutes..."

interesting article on identifying children's cave art

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www.science.org/content/arti...
text reads: "Fourteen thousand years ago, hunter gatherer grown-ups in Spain’s Las Monedas Cave were busy making serious cave art. Dozens of charcoal drawings depict reindeer, bison, and other ice age mammals in realistic detail. Kids, meanwhile, were apparently shooed off to their own corner of the cave. There, on a flat stretch of wall at toddler’s eye level, children seem to have etched a series of doodles that wouldn’t be out of place in a modern kindergarten class. The youngsters were between 3 and 6 years old and working alone, a team of archaeologists and child development experts conclude in Hunter Gatherer Research."
December 19, 2024 at 10:27 PM