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Using her knowledge of cave paintings and her study of various hunter-gatherer tribes over the past 20 years, Pontius posits that the disproportionate facial features drawn by Stone Age artists in their cave paintings may not be a result of their "primitive" developmental state but rather a response to their dangerous, nomadic lifestyle...
Furthermore, Pontius believes her research may also apply to inner-city students, arguing that their "enormous illiteracy rate" may be the result of their violent environment...
Since 1971, Pontius has researched the psychological reasons why Stone Age artists in the neolithic period represented human faces without proper proportion or details...
After studying groups of modern hunter-gatherers living in Ethiopia, the Amazon area and New Guinea, Pontius concluded that a constant fear for life altered the way the brains of their Stone Age ancestors operated...
...their persistent fear for life, either from wild animals, snakes, [or] wild beasts," Pontius says...