thanotaphobia:

prehistories:

prehistories:

sat through a lecture on paleolithic and neolithic culture and society and all i can think abt is how from as early as there have been anatomically modern humans (and even before in some cases) there is archaelogical evidence of gender and sexual variance, caring for the elderly and disabled, a drive to make art and music, a powerful affection for animals and each other, and a desire to learn as much as possible about the world as we can and yet people will still insist these things are not human nature and therefore unnatural, that the things we consider to be essentially human in nature are very recent in the span of our history or felt by only a rare few and not something integral to our humanity and success as a collective whole.

the more we study and analyse history the more we learn what it means to be human, all the good and all the bad, the closer we come to understanding that many things people have considered to be weaknesses of character, illnesses of the person, or meaningless in the face of our mortality are functionally necessary to our humanity and cannot be erased or ignored

white and straight archaeologists can make their assumptions but there there is always be the archaeological evidence

an old man was found toothless in the dmanisi site in georgia (the country). he would not have lived as long as he did unless his food was premushed or chewed. he is 1.77 million years old

here are eight different cave paintings – art was a THING. EVERYWHERE. every continent, the oldest paintings ever found are 40,000 to 64,000 years old, aprox.

the divje babe flute might be the oldest musical instrument, played by neanderthals 43,000 years ago (it could also just be chewed up by hyeneas, we’re not sure) but there are definitely flutes and drum-like instruments from long ago

there’s other things supporting OPs list of things- google them. you will find study after study and evidence of people loving, being artistic, of them being kind and empathetic

it wasn’t until recently that people have decided these things don’t matter. (recently as like, thousands of years) 

like this guy or this guy or this guy and so many more that i can’t name because i 1. don’t know them or 2. know but have forgotten

when we forgot or ignore our history, we won’t learn anything from it. humans are good and bad by nature.

in conclusion: art is good, music is good, sympathy is good. difference is good. those who say they are not human nature have never picked up a book.