Archaeologists examining ancient cave art in Tajikistan have proposed that prehistoric artists utilized rock shelters 12,000 years ago to project and illustrate early visions of the Milky Way. This interpretation attributes advanced astronomical tracking to hunter-gatherers long before the advent of formal civilizations or writing. Mainstream timelines usually prefer to keep our Pleistocene ancestors staring strictly at dirt, making sophisticated stellar cartography a bit of an unwelcome scheduling conflict.