RE: evolutionary psychology
August 8, 2021 at 11:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2021 at 11:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Turns out that people flintknapping have brains that look like a person learning to play music by ear. Posted a bit about it in the archaeology thread awhile back.
They're not doing words or diagrams or any of that -and at a point, we had tools but no words or diagrams. They were humming a hand axe into existence - and our brains still work that way doing the same work today - or, at least, we imagine there must be some shared business here - as they noticed this in unrelated test subjects with varying levels of skill between completely new and expert. Language may be a byproduct of something far more useful to us. Not the show itself, not even an attraction at the show. Just the billboards.
If you want to dive down the rabbit hole, keep that in mind - and then consider that we find shared technologies in multiple instances of independent construction and reconstruction all over the world and time. People we know for fact never communicated with each other in any way ended up making the same types of points and choppers. Invented things like spear throwers and bows. Construction techniques were roughly separated by latitudinal bands even though these bands are broken in many instances by vast bodies of water.
They're not doing words or diagrams or any of that -and at a point, we had tools but no words or diagrams. They were humming a hand axe into existence - and our brains still work that way doing the same work today - or, at least, we imagine there must be some shared business here - as they noticed this in unrelated test subjects with varying levels of skill between completely new and expert. Language may be a byproduct of something far more useful to us. Not the show itself, not even an attraction at the show. Just the billboards.
If you want to dive down the rabbit hole, keep that in mind - and then consider that we find shared technologies in multiple instances of independent construction and reconstruction all over the world and time. People we know for fact never communicated with each other in any way ended up making the same types of points and choppers. Invented things like spear throwers and bows. Construction techniques were roughly separated by latitudinal bands even though these bands are broken in many instances by vast bodies of water.
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