![]() ![]() Visual storytelling has kept evolving and become a staple in human civilization. Early records of art depicting everyday images were discovered in the Chauvet caves in southern France demonstrating man’s ability to reflect or pre-empt events. The historical background of visual storytelling can be pinpointed back to around 36 000 years. If a picture really is worth a thousand words then we have created enough stories throughout history to keep us entertained forever. It is this continuous human desire to be entertained that has allowed the storytelling methods to evolve from visual to oral to written and most recently to digital storytelling. “Tell me a story” is not just what young children say, but seems to be a mantra that we play on repeat in our daily lives. Storytelling can be found scattered in most human societies, popping up as myths, legends, or most commonly religion, and seems to be something that we binge and crave. “It is the distinctive ability to believe in stories that separate sapiens from other creatures,” says Yuva Noah Harari in his book Sapiens, writing that “You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.” And so, storytelling has managed to be a constant pillar in our societies and has fundamentally allowed us to mold our perception between right and wrong. ![]() We can piece moments together by working through the various mediums humans have tailored in order to suit our evolution. Though we cannot pinpoint a start date to know how long precisely storytelling has existed, we can follow part of its evolution through history. We know that historically, storytelling has been an active part of human life for thousands of years. A Brief History of Storytelling: How Long Has It Existed? ![]()
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