The cavemen were dumb myth was definitely started by someone who couldn’t start a fire without a lighter
-et37- on
To be fair, you try inventing and philosophizing when Oog just got dragged out of the communal cave by a Sabertooth Tiger.
ClearDrop6820 on
Invented oral sex, discovered psychedelics, harnesses the power of fire, invented spirituality, possibly had sex with unicorns.
Gigantopithecus1453 on
Cavemen were just us with different technology and social structure
Low_Coast_7608 on
cavemen where us, they had less knowledge than we do and had to figure more stuff but they where US
the brain who banged rocks togheter to start a fire is the same as the one who sent his kind into space
BikeyBichael on
See, we judge standards of intelligence based on standards we make. Grug couldn’t do taxes and I can’t either, so really we are the same deep down.
2244668813579 on
In the caveman’s defense if you give anyone a stick they are likely to turn into a dumb brute
Cgi22 on
Caveman didn’t exist as they are often evoked. Most Stone Age humans didn’t even live in caves but largely left no traces other then those resistant to time
Like for example stone tools
But much of their cultural evidences are lost to time and elements, only preserved in rare circumstances like remote caves with ideal conditions for preservation of cultural artifacts
first_name1001 on
Put them in the cave era without modern knowledge and see how he did it
Derivative_Kebab on
Also, we know they did cave art because cave art is a form of cultural expression that can survive extremely long periods of time. They likely also did lots of other stuff that we have no way of knowing about.
iStoleTheHobo on
Knew the nature of every growth in his massive migration area despite not having a written language, made pitched musical instruments, knew basic surgical procedures.
MuscleFlex_Bear on
Pre Monolith they were pretty dumb.
GabMVEMC on
We need to understand that food is high technology that’s now been devalued because it’s ubiquitous.
ZestyLemonRindGrind on
There’s ignorant and theres stupid.
CardGameAcolyte on
The funny thing is we use Neanderthal as an insult but physically speaking their brains were larger than ours
PepeTheElder on
Caveman survived long enough for Far Cry Primal to be made
Caveman uses concept art and creates this meme
Caveman puts himself in meme
Caveman creates meta
Level_Hour6480 on
People have been people for at least ~200,000 years. It just so happens we have the benefit of all the work people did previously figuring stuff out for us.
Gotta downvote for using the Nazi-heads though.
OStO_Cartography on
That’s the problem with Technological Bias.
As we become more used to a technology existing, we gradually forgot what a feat it was to create it.
Sewing is so commonplace now that we simply don’t care or even really notice it, but imagine what an absurd technologal achievement that would’ve been for our ancient ancestors.
Creating fabric, bone or ivory needles, developing stitches that both held and lasted, making thread, etc.
If you had to reinvent the whole concept of textiles today, where or how would you even begin?
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The cavemen were dumb myth was definitely started by someone who couldn’t start a fire without a lighter
To be fair, you try inventing and philosophizing when Oog just got dragged out of the communal cave by a Sabertooth Tiger.
Invented oral sex, discovered psychedelics, harnesses the power of fire, invented spirituality, possibly had sex with unicorns.
Cavemen were just us with different technology and social structure
cavemen where us, they had less knowledge than we do and had to figure more stuff but they where US
the brain who banged rocks togheter to start a fire is the same as the one who sent his kind into space
See, we judge standards of intelligence based on standards we make. Grug couldn’t do taxes and I can’t either, so really we are the same deep down.
In the caveman’s defense if you give anyone a stick they are likely to turn into a dumb brute
Caveman didn’t exist as they are often evoked. Most Stone Age humans didn’t even live in caves but largely left no traces other then those resistant to time
Like for example stone tools
But much of their cultural evidences are lost to time and elements, only preserved in rare circumstances like remote caves with ideal conditions for preservation of cultural artifacts
Put them in the cave era without modern knowledge and see how he did it
Also, we know they did cave art because cave art is a form of cultural expression that can survive extremely long periods of time. They likely also did lots of other stuff that we have no way of knowing about.
Knew the nature of every growth in his massive migration area despite not having a written language, made pitched musical instruments, knew basic surgical procedures.
Pre Monolith they were pretty dumb.
We need to understand that food is high technology that’s now been devalued because it’s ubiquitous.
There’s ignorant and theres stupid.
The funny thing is we use Neanderthal as an insult but physically speaking their brains were larger than ours
Caveman survived long enough for Far Cry Primal to be made
Caveman uses concept art and creates this meme
Caveman puts himself in meme
Caveman creates meta
People have been people for at least ~200,000 years. It just so happens we have the benefit of all the work people did previously figuring stuff out for us.
Gotta downvote for using the Nazi-heads though.
That’s the problem with Technological Bias.
As we become more used to a technology existing, we gradually forgot what a feat it was to create it.
Sewing is so commonplace now that we simply don’t care or even really notice it, but imagine what an absurd technologal achievement that would’ve been for our ancient ancestors.
Creating fabric, bone or ivory needles, developing stitches that both held and lasted, making thread, etc.
If you had to reinvent the whole concept of textiles today, where or how would you even begin?