Explanation of the Poor Artistic Production of the Neanderthal Stage
(Presentation of justifying hypotheses according to the data of art and anthropology)
Abstract
Although there is no final agreement on the process of classifying human races, the guiding model of science is still satisfied with the idea of separating the stage of a seemingly less civilized human called Neanderthal, whose historical presence preceded the presence of Homo sapiens. Therefore, this study starts from a position cantered on the guiding model of Science, and therefore the taxonomic consideration on which this study is based is the existence of Neanderthals with the same anthropological and biological perception indicated by modern science.
However, this study focuses on an exceptional aspect of Neanderthal life: his practice of art and the appeal of his tangible visual creativity. This kind of people was one of the least human races practicing artistic creativity, and the hypotheses of this failure were not fixed and final in most published studies and perceptions. Perhaps the absence of art students from the scene was the reason for the multiplicity of hypotheses and the lack of them, as it was the students of Anthropology and biology who often tried to develop justifying hypotheses for the absence of art from Neanderthals. What made the matter need a new review was the constancy of the emergence of indicators of artistic creativity in pre-Neanderthal man, and therefore this human race has become a subject worthy of scrutiny in terms of art production. This study comes to review several hypotheses of the absence of art and tangible visual creativity from the life of Neanderthals to later become available for research and scrutiny in more depth.
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