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You're right, no human being stacks rocks like this. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Although they may be considered primitive by today's technological standards, they were very, very smart and accomplished tremendous things with very little resource.

They were not primitive intellectually. They were smart, capable and intelligent people.

This is exactly the point many people don't understand: People in the past were not less intelligent than today's people.

We developed more ways to discover stuff and more precise tools to measure and detect things and of course with computers we got the ability to handle extremely complex data. All of this gives us an edge over past people science wise but we had very capable thinkers 200, 600 and 4000 years ago. All basic principles of mathematics have been developed a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The pithy version of that is that we know more things than our ancestors, but we're not smarter than them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They also see something like an expertly-knapped flint hand axe and think "I could do that in my back yard in five minutes" because they don't understand that something that looks primitive might actually be a really useful tool and actually not easy to make.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

This is why I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who calls any human society, past or present, "primitive."