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Do we believe that homosapiens from this era were really any fundamentally different than us today? Collecting cool crystals seems like such a normal thing to d
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
Do we believe that homosapiens from this era were really any fundamentally different than us today? Collecting cool crystals seems like such a normal thing to do, maybe without the religious aspect.
I always thought the “spark” that helped propel us to the future was not biological.
- datavirtue 6y agoWe don't know anything of humans from that time period. All the settlements are under water. Sea levels rose 400ft over just the last 20k years alone.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoIt's true that we know comparatively little about middle paleolithic human culture, but "anything" and "all the settlements" is a stretch. For example, we've found a structure, likely from a seasonal settlement, dated to 100 kYA in what's today southern Egypt. https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/paleolithic/ https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/paleolithic/
- snet0 6y agoI think collecting in general seems to be a fairly "normal" human behaviour. I imagine (with neither education nor research) that many pre-historic people's prized collections of fruit pits or animal teeth didn't stand the test of time, or the environment movements therein.