Early humans are just that, humans. Their brains worked basically identically to how ours work, they just had wildly different lives. If you plucked a baby from today and time swapped it with a baby born 10,000 years ago, they’d be fine and grow up as if they didn’t know (disease notwithstanding)
This is a difficult concept for Westerners (including myself at one point) since Western historiography has a tendency to portray history as linear and unidirectional.
Early humans are just that, humans. Their brains worked basically identically to how ours work, they just had wildly different lives. If you plucked a baby from today and time swapped it with a baby born 10,000 years ago, they’d be fine and grow up as if they didn’t know (disease notwithstanding)
This is a difficult concept for Westerners (including myself at one point) since Western historiography has a tendency to portray history as linear and unidirectional.
I’m reading the two perfect books about this at the moment:
https://www.buch7.de/produkt/a-history-of-the-world-in-500-maps-christian-grataloup/1043022620?ean=9780500252659
https://www.buch7.de/produkt/horizons-james-poskett/1043666144?ean=9780241986264
Both book kinda deconstruct the western linear history storytelling