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Jens Notroff Aug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this?! 🤯🤔

What really puzzles me is the disbelief that hunter-gatherers somehow could be capable of cultural achievements.

Does this come from an outdated idea equalling #HunterGatherer with #primitive?

🧵 A fundmental misunderstanding ...

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

We're the same humans after all.

With the same intellectual abilities, innovative drive, and practical capabilities. Even 10,000, 20,000 or 300,000 years ago.

We still *are* these humans.

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/lascaux/en

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/mammoth-bones-circle.html

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277927

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://www.science.org/content/article/stonehenge-other-ancient-rock-structures-may-trace-their-origins-monuments

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://theconversation.com/stone-age-megastructure-under-baltic-sea-sheds-light-on-strategy-used-by-palaeolithic-hunters-over-10-000-years-ago-223665

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

Hunter-gatherers made this.

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2023/fup_23_291-aelteste-siedlung-amnya-nachgewiesen/index.html

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

We're still the same humans. With the same intellectual abilities, innovative drive, and practical capabilities.

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Sara Joy

Aug 10

@jens2go they probably had a lot more time on their hands too. Of course they had skills, created art, thought, dreamed.

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Jens Notroff Aug 10

@sarajw Good point! Tme really doesn't seem to be much of an issue in this case:

https://time.com/archive/6637219/anthropology-the-original-affluent-society/

Anthropology: The Original Affluent Society

Imagine a society in which the work week seldom exceeds 19 hours, material wealth is considered a burden, and no one is much richer than anyone else. The trespasser is unknown, there are no...

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Sara Joy

@jens2go I came across this article too: https://rewild.com/in-depth/leisure.html

Does make you wonder sometimes, what am I doing, really. Too many of us now to just hunt and gather, though...

Hunter-gatherers have more leisure time.

Some people say that the advent of farming gave people more leisure time to build up civilization, but hunter-gatherers actually have far more leisure time than farmers do, and more still than modern people in the industrialized world.

Rewild.com