RE: The dawn of civilization
December 14, 2018 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 1:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's scant indication of human beings having been on the menu. What few animal marks we find suggest post mortem scavenging, instead. It's assumed that most large predators could have eaten us...but that's been true for all of history, as well..and yet such incidents are rare. Then there's the issue of why some intelligent fully modern human would go out picking fights with bears or tigers.
Your idea of what Real Men™ were up to is an artifact of cartoons and adventure flicks combined with a thoroughly modern fixation on a specific sort of masculinity, not a comment on the reality of the lithic period. The truth of the matter is that it was less he-man wrestling the mammoths and more long distance walker grazing while he strolled. Human beings had more to worry about by stepping on an acorn and getting tetanus than from being eaten by a sabretooth cat..mostly owing to the fact that they had largely gone extinct by the time we really came into our own..having been replaced by smaller cats....which would also go extinct in short order.
One of the only hard cases of contact known to us, when it comes to that, comes from schonigen(sp?)....it's a young latidens surrounded by spears. Less a duel between equals, and more an execution by mob.
Your idea of what Real Men™ were up to is an artifact of cartoons and adventure flicks combined with a thoroughly modern fixation on a specific sort of masculinity, not a comment on the reality of the lithic period. The truth of the matter is that it was less he-man wrestling the mammoths and more long distance walker grazing while he strolled. Human beings had more to worry about by stepping on an acorn and getting tetanus than from being eaten by a sabretooth cat..mostly owing to the fact that they had largely gone extinct by the time we really came into our own..having been replaced by smaller cats....which would also go extinct in short order.
One of the only hard cases of contact known to us, when it comes to that, comes from schonigen(sp?)....it's a young latidens surrounded by spears. Less a duel between equals, and more an execution by mob.
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