When we think of our most distant ancestors, and prehistory in general, we often think of primitivity, of crude archaic humans who had no mastery over everything and were left to bare survival. We think of stone tools, crude loin cloths, no mastery of speech, we think of cavemen and clubs, and thousands of years of utter primitivity. And it is true that mainstream historical narratives often depict early humans as such, living a stagnant way of life for countless centuries. But was it truly so? Have we underestimated our prehistoric predecessors and marred their possibly great legacy? To answer this we need to take a different look at this distant time in history, and to start observing prehistoric man through an altogether different lens. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient TechnologyNewsEvolution & Human OriginsScienceRead Later