Ancient man, contrary to some popular misconceptions, was not stupid...I find this to be a credible hypothesis.
Modernity has beget a bevy of ignorance and superstition—not necessarily “enlightenment” when it comes to knowledge and morality.
As my son said, if they were so dumb, why is it their monuments are still standing 1000, 5000, 20,000 years later, and ours will last ... ?
The rise of the over-credentialled, under-informed class (popularly known as “academics” and “PhD’s”) would want everyone to believe that without them around, humanity sinks into a cesspool of ignorance.
Contrary to their twaddle, humanity got along pretty well before PhDs were being granted to everyone and their cousins. In the old days, we had real world tests for competence.
People were either competent... or they were dead. In hindsight, it was a pretty good test.
PROOF POSITIVE: 1) They didn't listen to rap "music" and 2) They didn't elect Obama.
They’d have to be acclimated, just as we all have been without necessarily realizing it, but the same basic abilities are what made them human as well.
World’s oldest telescope? [ Assyrian telescope? ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1879740/posts
Fathers Of The Zodiac Tracked Down
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1844629/posts