Prehistoric autism helped create magnificent ancient art, study says

Many of the world's great ancient art is possible to have been made by prehistoric people with rare gifts within the autism spectrum, says a study by British scientists, Pryscopy notes.

Archaeologists who have collaborated with autism experts have concluded that people were able to produce the first artistic work some 33 thousand years ago because the difficult conditions of the ice age led to selecting certain genes.

These difficult conditions have favoured the natural selection of genes that predisposed some people to develop the ability to concentrate on detail for a very long period of time; to perceive their environment in three-dimensional terms in an extended way; to develop the memory of images; and to develop trends to identify and analyze the contures of geography and movement.

All these trends, often found in autism, enabled people of the ice age to create the great artistic works of the day. /Periscopi