I'm not sur if its me noticing things or the zeitgiest, but ancient history seems to be really interesting right now.
There were people here a long time ago. They were doing stuff. We have no idea what or why. A tiny fraction of their stuff was big and stone and durable enough to last thousands of years and let us know they were there and doing interesting things. But, we don't have any context. It would be like future generations finding a gigantic open pit mine in one place an airport runway in another place and a giant statue of Kim Jong Un and speculating about out society.
BTW, If there where stonehenges & Pyramids from 20k years ago, would they have lasted till now? We tend to assume not much was going on during the paleolithic. If city states trade & large structures existed during those times, would we know about it?
There were people here a long time ago. They were doing stuff. We have no idea what or why. A tiny fraction of their stuff was big and stone and durable enough to last thousands of years and let us know they were there and doing interesting things. But, we don't have any context. It would be like future generations finding a gigantic open pit mine in one place an airport runway in another place and a giant statue of Kim Jong Un and speculating about out society.
BTW, If there where stonehenges & Pyramids from 20k years ago, would they have lasted till now? We tend to assume not much was going on during the paleolithic. If city states trade & large structures existed during those times, would we know about it?