[ComputerGuy]

It’s difficult for me to imagine a pre-pottery civilization.
Or any other society before we could hoist one.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“It’s difficult for me to imagine a pre-pottery civilization.”

That jumped out at me, too. We always think in terms of metals (iron, bronze) and stone. But I never thought about the invention of fired pottery and (probably much later) glass.

It is truly amazing what we continue to find of ancient civilizations and the work required to piece together knowledge about that civilization.

[Sirius Lee]

It’s difficult for me to imagine a pre-pottery civilization.

Then again, consider the tooling required for this bracelet made by an apish Denisovan some 40K years ago...