Abstruse Humans seem to have an adaptive predisposition for inventing, telling and consuming stories ane . Prehistoric cave art provides the most straight insight that nosotros take into the earliest storytelling 2,iii,4,v , in the course of narrative compositions or 'scenes' two,5 that characteristic articulate figurative depictions of sets of figures in spatial proximity to each other, and from which one tin can infer deportment taking identify amidst the figures five . The Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Europe hosts the oldest previously known images of humans and animals interacting in recognizable scenes 2,5 , and of therianthropes half dozen,7 —abstract beings that combine qualities of both people and animals, and which arguably communicated narrative fiction of some kind (folklore, religious myths, spiritual beliefs and so on). In this tape of creative expression (spanning from almost 40 thousand years agone (ka) until th...