Data and the Power of Story

On a ruggedly mountainous Indonesian island called Sulawesi sits a cave containing what is possibly the earliest known example of human storytelling. According to uranium-series analysis, the below scene was etched into limestone some 44,000 years ago, and it shows us a group of eight beings in the act of communal hunting. These ancient discoveries often shine light onto our own experience and reveal an incredible, though unsurprising fact: human beings love stories, we’ve been that way for a… (flightaware.engineering) More...