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Does this come from an outdated idea equalling #HunterGatherer with #primitive?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 ...
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.
@jens2go I'm guessing the 300k was a typo? The theories I've seen are that the human brain hasn't changed in 100,000 years, which is a very long time for our species but the blink of an eye for the history of the planet.
It really amazes me that these imbeciles believe they are somehow smarter than hunter-gatherers. Having access to more knowledge doesn't make you smarter, and these folks prove it every day.
@Shdwdrgn @jens2go Knowledge is a tool and tools make you smarter by teaching you how to use them. The tools for thinking, such as empirical science, that we have are more capable than what they had. The very idea of evolution by natural selection makes us able to think of new, more complex things and see the world in a more truthful way. So ... "smarter".
They were fully as biologically capable as us, but they didn't have the same tools...for whatever "smart" is worth.
@crazyeddie @jens2go Sure, but what I'm saying is that if you were able to take a child from that time period, allow them to grow up in our modern day, then that child would likely be indistinguishable from any other child.
Being "smart" is making use of the knowledge you have access to. I wouldn't call a flat-earther "smart" because they have access to the same information I do, and yet they choose to ignore reality despite having similar brain capacity.
Jens Notroff
Shdwdrgn
crazyeddie