476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history
476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history
Ancient woodworkings found in Zambia suggest early humans built complex structures and were more settled than previously thought
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So they talk about this as if it were a new innovation at the time—but could it be that this kind of woodworking was more widespread and this was just the only example to survive? Could it have been a standard part of the Acheulian toolkit?
That's probably the assumption they're working with, because historians do it all the time. Document survival for the pre-modern period is so poor that it doesn't take very many examples to demonstrate (for all intents and purposes) that something was widespread.
Why couldn't those darn pre-moderns just do proper backups of their documents? I bet they didn't even have cloud storage!
Could have at least sent a scheduled slack message