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[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Early humans are just that, humans. Their brains worked basically identically to how ours work, they just had wildly different lives. If you plucked a baby from today and time swapped it with a baby born 10,000 years ago, they’d be fine and grow up as if they didn’t know (disease notwithstanding)

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is a difficult concept for Westerners (including myself at one point) since Western historiography has a tendency to portray history as linear and unidirectional.

[–] bmpvy@feddit.org 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm reading the two perfect books about this at the moment:

https://www.buch7.de/produkt/a-history-of-the-world-in-500-maps-christian-grataloup/1043022620?ean=9780500252659

https://www.buch7.de/produkt/horizons-james-poskett/1043666144?ean=9780241986264

Both book kinda deconstruct the western linear history storytelling