Even cavemen used social networks


Scientists claim to have discovered a prehistoric version of Facebook used by Bronze Age tribes to communicate with each other studying thousands of images scrawled across two granite rock sites in Russia and Sweden, a Cambridge University team claimed the site were like an archaic version of the social networkwhere user shared thoughts and emotions approval to other contributions similar to the facebook “Like”There is clearly something quite special about these spaces. I think people went there because they knew people had been there before them study researcher Mark Sapwell said in statement like today people have always wanted to fell connected to each other this was an expression of identity for these very early societies before written language he said.Scientists believe ancient man continued to go back to the exact same locations to draw communicate for thousand of year as it provided them with “comfort” and a deep human “connection” According to Sapwell the site they are investigating one is Zalavruga in Russia and another in Namforen Northern Sweden contain around 2,500 images such as animals human boats and hunting parties using analytical software Sapwell team is comparing the imagnery over large areas adding and talking off layers to create sense of how people built on existing images sapwell a PhD archaseology student at St John’s college said “like facebook status invites comment the rock art appears very social and invites addition the way the variations of images both mirror and acts as kind of call and response between different packs of hunters across hundreds even thousands of years.”

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