A student trying for easy answers on the History QA got me wondering about the influence of the Monkey Trails on human evolution.
Bruce Chatwin’s, THE SONGLINES, documents the underlying premise of my question: Chatwin’s research concluded that aboriginals in Australia believe[d] the continent, the world, reality was ‘sung’ into existence by ancestral deities as they traveled along a matrix of trails, commemorated in song and kept in existence by repetitions of those songs by travelers. The lyrics also functioned as maps for travelers.
I’m wondering whether something similar hasn’t happened, but been forgotten across the rest of the planet, the result of trails originally made by apes, followed by apes throughout history until they achieved the status of super highways.
Are the lyrics of human evolution recorded on billboards and in the stark highway hypnosis resonance of centerlines?
Can the monkey trails really contain the secret to human evolution?
2007-07-11 10:50:40 · 2 answers · asked by Jack P 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2007-07-11 10:57:24 · update #1
Pedastal and da mick: Thumbs-up for each of you. I think you're both right.
2007-07-11 11:23:01 · update #2
"Are the lyrics of human evolution recorded on billboards[?]"
No. "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls."
"Trailing, we are trailing, home again, 'cross the sea..."
2007-07-11 11:02:45 · answer #1 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't there be a sort of community left behind? Some sort of archaeological discovery, be it pottery or anything of that nature?
2007-07-11 18:05:49 · answer #2 · answered by Da Mick 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋