“It needs to be repeatedly emphasized that no explanation of Upper Palaeolithic art can ever be ‘proved’ … Proof is a concept that should be restricted to closed systems, such as mathematics. At the end of an algebraic problem, a student can write ‘Q.E.D.’ — that which had to be demonstrated. But in archaeology, nothing of interest will ever be proved in that way.”
- David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave (via nrmoore)
- David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave (via nrmoore)