We know that good nutrition during childhood has a significant impact on IQ, as does avoiding parasite infections. Those ancients were the same species as us, but it is almost know that that they likely suffered from food precarity at times and endemic infections, so the belief they had their shit less together than many modern populations is reasonable.
Please have a look at how indigenous tribes live and cure the sick to get a feeling what it would have might be back 50k+ years.
What I got during Museum visits and talking with people working in academics those people had a pretty good living. Well feed and even major injuries were treated well.
So please come on.
This is contradicted by any and all documentation on not only "indigenous tribes", but even developed countries until the age of antibiotics. Injuries were much riskier in the past than now, and no idyllic Shangri-La you fantasize about had any magic to avoid that. The food precarity of hunter-gatherer lifestyles is why so many societies adopted agriculture. Plus, infant mortality was through the roof, and risk to also mothers was high. I think you took from "Museum visits and talking with people working in academics [sic]" a misunderstanding that you wanted to hear.
That our species survived down the millennia does not mean they had maximized health, just as we today have not maximized health. But we have made greater strides in childhood IQ-relevant areas.
If Rembrandt, Raphael or Warhol were born back then they wouldn't have had the cultural milieu to create the same things.
Or something similar. Compare it with his style when he got older. It's related.
Translated from German:
> For a long time, scientists assumed that the first artworks in human history originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago. Recently, however, cave paintings discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have challenged this assumption. Thanks to a new dating method, it has been revealed: one of the rock paintings is at least 67,800 years old.
The documentary is available in German and French only. Subtitles are available only in the aforementioned languages too. I used AI to make high-quality English subtitles from the official ones.
Pardon me, but we are talking about homo sapiens here? Those people would be not different then you and me. If you would raise one of their child's today it would just blend in. They were/are the same species then you and me... I just want to say please don't ride that all cavemen were stupid apes train. That boot sailed a long time ago regarding to modern science.