Post #448902 by Bay Park Buzzy on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 12:11 PM

If you gave one thousand monkeys a typewriter and had them type for 1,000 years, none of them would ever produce a copy of the Book of Tiki, or anything even similar to the Book of Tiki.

But,

If you give 1000 wood carvers a piece of wood and asked them each to produce a figural form, there is a very good chance that several of them would look very similar to each other.

Christiki:
The answers you seek may be found in an Anthropological concept called "parallel generation." I takes into consideration two isolated cultures coming up with similar art or technology advances independent of each other.

Tom kind of came close to the theory here, but forgot to check it with the geologic timeline

On 2009-04-22 10:00, Tom Slick wrote:
With that said, I'd gamble to say that almost all primitive art looks similar, and could also show the progression of each human's internal clock and same speed learning based on timeframe of art, and location.

This next part has a few problems:

I would dare to say we all came from one giant continent before the Teutonic plates shifted and moved masses of land to how the earth's continents now look. The Earth evolved,shifted and moved, while taking humans along for the ride. I don't think art is genetic, and it would have had to be inherited or tought AFTER the plates shifted, which would debunk the title question of this thread, in my opinion.

After the plates had shifted?

First, I'd like to congratulate the Brazillians for jumping off their land mass and luckily hopping on the one that was moving west. Good job guys! You got out just in time. You might have ended up being Africans and later sold in to slavery and sent to Brazil to work on the sugar plantations.

Second, Pangea started to split about 176,000,000 - 161,000,000 years ago. That leaves about a 175,800,000-160,800,000 year hole in your human art development timeline. It would be at least 161,000,000 more years before Homo Sapiens even came about. Maybe the people back then were riding on the backs of dinosaurs during the Ice Age shopping for African tiki mugs as the continents gently floated around? Eventually, they may have passed Hawaii on the way back to where Africa is now and seen the tikis there and that is what probably stated this whole tiki revival thing anyway.

And lastly, I think Chris-tiki should have to change his TC name. It looks like too much like CHRIST-iki to me.

Buzzy Out!