"In short, if the new hypothesis is accurate, it shows that our Paleolithic ancestors “were almost certainly as cognitively advanced as we are” and “that they a

"In short, if the new hypothesis is accurate, it shows that our Paleolithic ancestors “were almost certainly as cognitively advanced as we are” and “that they are fully modern humans,” Bacon told Motherboard. It also means “that their society achieved great art, use of numbers, and writing” and “that reading more of their writing system may allow us to gain an insight into their beliefs and cultural values,” he concluded." It remembers me the first chapter from "The Everlasting Man", Chesterton: https://www.worldinvisible.com/library/chesterton/everlasting/part1c1.htm https://www.worldinvisible.com/library/chesterton/everlastin... "In fact, people have been interested in everything about the cave-man except what he did in the cave. Now there does happen to be some real evidence of what be did in the cave. It is little enough, like all the prehistoric evidence, but it is concerned with the real cave-man and his cave and not the literary cave-man and his club." I remember first time that I read it, I thought "and if the cave was just their kindergarden, where the cave-kids just spent their time drawing in the cave-wall"