{"id":337,"date":"2014-02-03T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jnnp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-02-05T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:04:12","slug":"what-does-neurology-have-to-do-with-a-mammoth-tusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jnnp\/2014\/02\/03\/what-does-neurology-have-to-do-with-a-mammoth-tusk\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Neurology have to do with a Mammoth Tusk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across this article the other night, and wanted to share it.\u00a0 I enjoy art (probably like lots of us), and although I possess no talents in the field (possibly also like a lot of us), I always enjoy the chance to go\u00a0look at it.\u00a0 I even did a ‘Diploma of Art’ while at uni, in between medical subjects, which although has not added much to my medical career, definitely added something\u00a0on a personal front.<\/p>\n

‘Engraved hexagons on an Ice Age ivory’1 (click here!<\/a>) analyses art in a way that never was covered in ‘Visual Culture 101’.\u00a0\u00a0Dr Schott looks at the engraved hexagons on a mammoth tusk from a neurological perspective.\u00a0\u00a0 What do you need, brain-wise, to be able to come up with the idea to make a pattern?\u00a0 What motor skills do you need to carve it?\u00a0\u00a0 Did Ice Age man, sitting on a freezing cold moor, copy this pattern from nature?\u00a0 Was it remembered from a migraneous aura?\u00a0 Was it created in a groggy\u00a0hallucinogenic induced trance?\u00a0 Or was it simply created, ‘de novo’?<\/p>\n

This piece of mammoth tusk, carved in such a way, speaks volumes about the person who did it.\u00a0 One of the most fascinating things, I think, is that it truly\u00a0is a peak into the workings\u00a0of a ‘modern’ brain, capable of the thoughts and artistic thinking that we have today.<\/p>\n

Neurology – there’s no end to the ways it can be applied!<\/p>\n

(and I’ll never look at Ice Age art the same…)<\/p>\n

1 –\u00a0<\/span>Engraved hexagons on an Ice Age ivory: a neurological perspective on an anthropological debate. \u00a0Schott, D G. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry<\/abbr> doi:10.1136\/jnnp-2013-307044<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across this article the other night, and wanted to share it.\u00a0 I enjoy art (probably like lots of us), and although I possess no talents in the field (possibly also like a lot of us), I always enjoy the chance to go\u00a0look at it.\u00a0 I even did a ‘Diploma of Art’ while at […]<\/p>\n

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