RE: The dawn of civilization
December 14, 2018 at 2:39 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 2:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"Men being Men" is, in your mind, men being dumb enough to duel a tiger. I'm pointing out that there's no reason to assume that this was the case in the lithic, no more so than there is today. As the example of the latidens shows us, what men being men did..was to gather up a clutch of people and execute a juvenile - because that's how it's done.
Similarly, husbandry and livestock operations as well as dedicated food processing began in the late neolithic, before farming, even. This was also "men being men", blockading wild game rather than engaging in some life or death hunt. Bringing these goods back for processing and curing for yet more convenience. Situating their encampment in annual grasses and conveniently located to water.
The things we do today are advanced many thousands of years from that, but entirely of the same type. We even began to specialize then, with the organized division of labor, as the concentrations of different tools in different structures in many settlements show us.
Ultimately, all of these things laid the foundation for the transition from lithic to ceramic cultures. Real Men™ of the stone age were gatherers and parents - not monster hunters with a death wish. They'd have considered the grocery store and the mcdonalds with the same affinity that we do...we're the same people. That's what full human modernity means. That our present situation somehow inculcates an inferiority complex in you is your own business..it had nothing to do with them or what they did.
Ironically, we have a historic case of what Real Men™ in stone age cultures do in the face of modern tech. They quickly see it's worth and assume it. The late mississippian period in the US couldn't be more instructive in this regard.
Similarly, husbandry and livestock operations as well as dedicated food processing began in the late neolithic, before farming, even. This was also "men being men", blockading wild game rather than engaging in some life or death hunt. Bringing these goods back for processing and curing for yet more convenience. Situating their encampment in annual grasses and conveniently located to water.
The things we do today are advanced many thousands of years from that, but entirely of the same type. We even began to specialize then, with the organized division of labor, as the concentrations of different tools in different structures in many settlements show us.
Ultimately, all of these things laid the foundation for the transition from lithic to ceramic cultures. Real Men™ of the stone age were gatherers and parents - not monster hunters with a death wish. They'd have considered the grocery store and the mcdonalds with the same affinity that we do...we're the same people. That's what full human modernity means. That our present situation somehow inculcates an inferiority complex in you is your own business..it had nothing to do with them or what they did.
Ironically, we have a historic case of what Real Men™ in stone age cultures do in the face of modern tech. They quickly see it's worth and assume it. The late mississippian period in the US couldn't be more instructive in this regard.
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