Watching Brief: Prehistoric Autism Helped Produce Cave Art? - May 2018

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Channel: Archaeosoup · 2018 · Education

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Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

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Prehistoric Autism helped produce much of the world’s earliest great art, study says:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prehistoric-autism-cave-paintings-barry-wright-penny-spikins-university-of-york-a8351751.html

How Do We Explain ‛Autistic Traits’ in European Upper Palaeolithic Art? - Paper

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opar.2018.4.issue-1/opar-2018-0016/opar-2018-0016.xml?format=INT

Cave Art, Autism, and the Evolution of the Human Mind (1998):

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9fb5/7b9182966a4ef75f892fc637f7672829bd3f.pdf

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