[Arguendo]

I guess to people that think like you would have them invent the lumber mill and nails first, then build the canoe and be classified as “advanced”. Actually they used what nature had supplied them in their environment.

That makes sense. Simple cultures use what nature makes available to them, sometimes very effectively, but still remain largely constrained by nature. Advanced cultures developed technologies that allow them to do far more given similar natural endowments.

[fish hawk]

All cultures were simple at their beginnings, even yours.