@McGentrix,
And now for a special glimpse of your ignorance.
Quote McGentrix:
Quote:Please demonstrate how you know that 2,000 years ago people were just as smart as they are now.
Really, McGentrix? We started out in Africa with spears, some use of fire and not much else, and yet ancient Homo Sapiens survived, flourished, and brought us to the civilized age. You think they could be inferior to us intellectually and accomplish this?
However, for actual evidence that they were at least equal in intelligence to ourselves, I offer the following:
Cavemen Trump Modern Artists at Drawing Animals
Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists:
Paleolithic people living more than 10,000 years ago had a better artistic eye than modern painters and sculptures — at least when it came to watching how horses and other four-legged animals move.
A new analysis of 1,000 pieces of prehistoric and modern artwork finds that "cavemen," or people living during the upper Paleolithic period between 10,000 and 50,000 years ago, were more accurate in their depictions of four-legged animals walking than artists are today. While modern artists portray these animals walking incorrectly 57.9 percent of the time, prehistoric cave painters only made mistakes 46.2 percent of the time.
Modern artists are also worse at capturing the gait of horses and other quadrupeds than taxidermists, anatomy textbook writers and toy figurine designers, the researchers report today (Dec. 5) in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
http://www.livescience.com/25269-cavemen-better-modern-artists-animal-walks.html
Really McGentrix, you should devote some of your A2K time to researching the past. What our ancestors accomplished in the last 195,000 years is astonishing.