As intelligent as us today, and they lived in caves and threw spears at wild animals. Got it.
#9. Re “As intelligent as us today, and they lived in caves and threw spears at wild animals. Got it”.
As Bob Hope might have said in an old movie, “Oh, you mean Democrats” “or “Oh, you mean like in So. Chicago and Portland”.
Pre-agriculture civilization with no industrialization. Look up the description of tools and weapons found on Otzi the iceman who they found frozen in ice from 5,300 years ago. Could you have made any of these yourself?
Dont laugh...we would be doing same if there was no history of civilization to fall back on...I would guess there are many people who would die very quickly if they had to fend for themselves in the outdoors...
they lived in caves and threw spears at wild animals.
Baby steps: living in caves beat living under a bush and they were able to keep the fire lit in the rain.
They had to invent their weaponry, including the ingenious atlatyl.
It was only later with nuanced development that they discovered Walmart...
As intelligent as us today, and they lived in caves and threw spears at wild animals. Got it.
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The upland hunters yes, everybody else lived in cities, now hundreds of feet below sea level, or like the Westerner culture that preceded Old Kingdom Egypt lie buried beneath hundreds of feet of Nile Delta mud. Or leave only erratic and scattered fragments like the Map of the Creator.
Also many constructions or tools were repurposed and now are lost or of unknown usage - many the Giza plateau stones were used in buildings in Cairo, succeeding pharaohs routinely scratched off their predecessors names and writings etc.
As far as throwing spears at wild animals - understand that such an undertaking is nothing an average modern human from Western Civ would or could undertake, and the chances of bringing the animal down are in direct proportion to the survivability of the hunter?
Remember the period of time we are talking about was the time of mega fauna - smilodons, cave bears, dire wolves among others. More often, the human was the hunted. Hunting is not easy, taking a great bit of knowledge of nature and the prey’s habits to accomplish and survive.
That is how farmers and commercial fishermen operate - both groups are usually highly educated, many holding degrees from prestigious universities ... are they any less intelligent then a person with a GED sitting in an office all day staring at a keyboard and computer screen?
Knowledge of the stars movements tracks seasons and prey availability timing, also times of asteroid falling like the Taurids which were not always as benign as they are today. There has to be a way to preserve and communicate that knowledge to succeeding generations, if the community is to survive.
And they didn't need to throw spears at the tame animals...they could be led off to the slaughter not knowing what was about to happen to them.