Next, they'll be telling us that building the pyramids "required the work of highly skilled engineers." It's a new idea, some kind of brilliant insight, the building enormous things out of rock requires skill?
Maybe the point is that the word "engineers" is supposed to convey something new.
Yes, just as different technologies were used in stone-knapping to make tools during the stone age.
My long-time “take” is that civilization has moved ahead in spurts. The spurts are generated by the occasional genius born among the population who directs how things get accomplished.
(Borrowed from Dr. Jay Gould, who postulated that evolution on the planet occurred in spurts, or in “Punctuated Equilibrium”).
I had occasion to speak with him before his early death.
“Next, they’ll be telling us that building the pyramids “required the work of highly skilled engineers.” “
I know, what a stoopid headline! Truly brilliant insight.
“So easy a caveman can do it.”