It's funny you say that, because I was just watching a video of great apes looking at themselves in a mirror that scientists set up in the jungle. Once they got over the fear and realized they were seeing themselves, one of the things multiple apes did was look at their assholes.
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They tried to look at every part of their body. Yes, this includes the asshole.
The video I was watching they were very specifically looking at their assholes. They were putting their leg up on the mirror to get a better view
Maybe they had read this thread
Probably! Time travel apes.
Even after mirrors were invented, I still haven't seen mine..
The view is shitty.
Be glad, you won't have to see a brown eye staring back at you.
I've seen my own asshole, it's not a particularly interesting view. I much prefer seeing someone else's.
I wonder if a human back then used the reflection from water at a lake or pond to see what their asshole looked like.
Remember that the first mirrors were made from metal and polished volcanic glass.
Which means mirrors or mirror substitutes were always available to us even before we made metal tools as long as we could source obsidian. Granted you'd have to actually live near an active volcano for the latter.
However you aren't wrong! A cheap way to make "mirrors" in the old time is to just take a flat bowl with mud lining the bottom and have water on top. This was used when volcanic rock of polished stone/metal was not readily available!
Or their own bald spot.
Unless they look at their reflection in the water.
Uhm.. any reflective surface like water would do though?