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stopdiggin

(11,096 posts)
5. Ohhhhh WAIT!
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 04:09 PM
Jul 2020

there is absolutely NO foundation for such a statement! Brutal and hard perhaps. No language or conscious thought process? That's just flat out wrong! Talk to your sociologist or anthropologist friends ....

"It's almost impossible to imagine what human existence would have been like during that time but surely was very brutal and difficult. Would seem to be very animal-like, with no language or conscious thought process as we depend on today."
Earliest evidence for humans in the Americas Judi Lynn Jul 2020 #1
Thanks, LoC, you just beat me to it. Very interesting find. KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2020 #2
Ohhhhh WAIT! stopdiggin Jul 2020 #5
Maybe not so brutal Richard D Jul 2020 #9
there was a lot less sex on the wrong brain too- less greed and authoritarianism certainot Jul 2020 #14
... 2naSalit Jul 2020 #8
I respectfully disagree. GulfCoast66 Jul 2020 #10
but we have much better weaponry now and with a lot more sex on the wrong brain we have certainot Jul 2020 #15
Wow! GulfCoast66 Jul 2020 #18
thank you stopdiggin Jul 2020 #20
humans went from about 50-50 right and left handed like chimps to 90% certainot Jul 2020 #21
I don't find this at all compelling stopdiggin Jul 2020 #23
right handed dominance is 'credited' to tool-making or language but sowb goes back to our earliest certainot Jul 2020 #24
Right. And 'civilization started long ago. GulfCoast66 Jul 2020 #26
thanks. quite interesting stopdiggin Jul 2020 #3
That is very interesting Chainfire Jul 2020 #4
that couch needs to be shifted stopdiggin Jul 2020 #6
It's only with the discovery of HGTV that reno became a thing RainCaster Jul 2020 #13
Surprise cave discoveries may double the time people lived in the Americas Judi Lynn Jul 2020 #7
Well the Nat Geo article has 2naSalit Jul 2020 #11
"leading the scientists to HYPOTHESIZE that..." Not theorize. ffr Jul 2020 #12
Where was the coast line? murpheeslaw Jul 2020 #16
One problem in establishing wnylib Jul 2020 #17
"a water route" left-of-center2012 Jul 2020 #19
I think the archeological community stopdiggin Jul 2020 #22
Yes, archaeologists are more willing wnylib Jul 2020 #25
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