that's not really true. 10,000 years ago is about when we developed agriculture, stopped roaming as much, and started writing in some form that could survive the millennia, but we've been living and working together since long before we were ever recognizably human.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In addition, we keep pushing key invention dates back further and further as we discover more archaeological evidence. It’s quite possible we were doing human things long before we think we did.

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is another thing that seems really weird to me. The explosion of technological development in the last 300 years or so compared to the preceding several thousand is pretty wild.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What boiling water with coal does to a motherfucker.

[–] aubertlone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

One of my favorite memes in general, used to great effect here.

What ______________ does to a mf

But I mean..... really tho!!

[–] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

. 10,000 years ago is about when we developed agriculture, stopped roaming as much, and started writing in some form that could survive the millennia

This is bias towards a specific type of societal structure.

Lots of peoples with rich, complex and fascinating cultures continued to live successful nomadic lives for centuries past the introduction of agriculture.

[+] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world -13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Pre-agrarian humans had more in common with beasts than with us. We were basically just another migratory animal subject to the migration patterns of our prey and seasonal growth. We have had the misfortune to see what feral humans who survived in isolation behave like.

The larger scale cooperation required for agriculture is when we began to diminish behaving as such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Sanichar

We are products of our environments.

[–] Suspicious@lemmy.wtf 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is the dumbest "im so smart and edgy" comment I've ever seen. what we call a feral human today haa zero relation to life in pre-agrarian societies, also the idea that people ...going to places were food will be makes them mindless zombies is so ridiculous thatI don't even know where to start

20 minutes of looking into archeological sites will show you how complex and cooperative non-agrarian society's were (I'm saying non here instead of pre because there are many instances of societies developing agriculture and then moving away from it due to various social/environmental factors)

[–] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah. People seem to forget that the people in our past are exactly the same as us. They had fun, loved each other, got upset, got happy, worked together. They just didn’t have the advancements we have. Just because they went where food was doesn’t make them any less human. What else were they gonna do? Starve? They needed to eat, and they didn’t know of any alternative reliable way of getting food besides hunting since they didn’t figure out farming yet.