▶ Your Answer : In the lecture, the lecturer asserts that the reading’s claim is
groundless.
This casts doubt on the reading’s point
that petroglyphs have some specific purposes of them.
First, the lecturer claims that petroglyphs
were not made for communicating between
different tribes.
She says that archeologists find that images
in the petroglyphs had different meanings by different tribes. So they couldn’t
function as communication tools to help each other. Moreover, they didn’t need
to help enemy to avoid dangers in the future.
This counters the reading’s mention that petroglyphs
functioned as communication tools.
Second, the lecturer maintains that assertion
that petroglyphs were made for religious ceremonies dose not make sense. She says that other relation tools for religious
ceremonies were elaborate and detail. However, petroglyphs were simple and
crude than other religious things. Thus, this refutes the reading’s assertion that
the use of petroglyphs was calling upon divine powers for religious ceremonies. Lastly, she points out that petroglyphs were
not a way for killing time. She says that petroglyphs might be have practical
purposes. As people played game for good at fighting and hunting, petroglyphs had
some practical use.
This opposes the reading’s assertion that
the carvings were just created to
escape boredom. |