So if you met one of these early men, your first thought and first action would be to put them in zoo with the other animals?
Of course they were human, just not the same. Or put you in the place and conditions they lived in, how long do you think you would survive?
Flint knapping is not an easy skill to learn, the thought and manual dexterity required to achieve a simple usable biface is not easily learned. Were we to meet face to face with early man I expect we would by quite surprised at his resemblance to modern man. There is far more to flint knapping than just banging on rocks. I suspect early man was far more intelligent than we give him credit for, he was just limited by the tool and material he had to work with.
Neanderthals were making complex tools for hundreds of thousands of years. The could bench press between 300-500lbs. They roam earth for over 400,000 years before we killed them off, with the advancements in technology I wonder what our society will be like in 100,000 or more.
I suspect genetic superhumans will kill us off or put us in cages.
Re: “Of course they were human, just not the same.”
I have no idea what that means.
Anthropologists and Paleontologists use specific fossils and DNA to describe different kinds of hominids.
The word “Human” has a specific meaning when they use it.
Re: “Or put you in the place and conditions they lived in, how long do you think you would survive?”
What does that have to do with my earlier comment?