Apes don’t carve logs and notch them to build structures.
While not “modern humans” it’s important not to fall into the trap of thinking those who came prior to us had some degree of lesser intelligence. Truth is they probably just knew different things that were important to their lives then. Instead of knowing how to drive a car or use credit card they knew what plants to eat, how to make tools, hunt, and apparently build houses with logs.
Homo heidelbergensis is the common ancestor between modern humans and Neanderthals. They are pretty darn close to modern humans. And if you took a modern human from, say, 10,000 years ago and raised them in the modern world you’d just have a modern human. While this seems like a long way back, this subspecies probably isn’t that far from that scenario.
And recent research into Neanderthal DNA shows that there was intermingling and an ebb and flow of genetic mixing over long periods of time. I only say that to suggest that things are less linear than we were taught.
While not “modern humans” it’s important not to fall into the trap of thinking those who came prior to us had some degree of lesser intelligence. Truth is they probably just knew different things that were important to their lives then. Instead of knowing how to drive a car or use credit card they knew what plants to eat, how to make tools, hunt, and apparently build houses with logs.
Homo heidelbergensis is the common ancestor between modern humans and Neanderthals. They are pretty darn close to modern humans. And if you took a modern human from, say, 10,000 years ago and raised them in the modern world you’d just have a modern human. While this seems like a long way back, this subspecies probably isn’t that far from that scenario.
And recent research into Neanderthal DNA shows that there was intermingling and an ebb and flow of genetic mixing over long periods of time. I only say that to suggest that things are less linear than we were taught.
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-an....