Whatever it may say about Pre-Classic Mayan culture – namely that these people were more sophisticated at an earlier time than previously thought – this 2,100 year old painting from Guatemala is a dazzling work of art.
This leads me to reflect on how art is so intrinsically woven into us as a species. We really seem to be driven to it. The earliest art that we have from European caves shows a high degree of skill and imagination – reinforcing my old dictum that our early, “primitive”, H. sapiens ancestors were just as intelligent as we are.