humans 50k years ago: we didn’t start the fire
And also humans 500k years ago: we didn’t start the fire either
It was always burning
since the world’s been turning
Chris Stringer, a human evolution specialist at the Natural History Museum, said fossils from Britain and Spain suggest the inhabitants of Barnham were early Neanderthals whose cranial features and DNA point to growing cognitive and technological sophistication.
Neat!
This is huge for the potential of literal “pre-historic” civilization. Of course it’s completely hypothetical, but this discovery gives it at least some actual potential. Just kinda incredible to think what could’ve existed. Plastic degrades in roughly 600 years at the long end. It’s a tall order to make a building that will last for 10,000 (doomsday seed vault). What was lost in the library of Alexandria? How much of our own history did we actually know in the past?
Unfortunately I think these questions and similar ones (impossible without an answer) will haunt me until the day I die.
Idont know much about those questions. But I can feel your passion from here and it’s energizing!
And they didn’t even need a volleyball to help them
