Mystery
| July 25th, 2011Supposedly, anatomically modern humans have been around for 200,000 years. We know something of the past 7,000-9,000 or so. But what was going on before that? Little empires rising and falling, possibly religious and cultural conflicts that still echo even in the present day. Interbreeding with other hominids. Ice age coming and fucking everything up, an apocalypse of sorts. All kinds of crazy stories and happenings that we will never know.
Languages and traditions gone forever. We really only see a tiny fraction of our history. We’re like a 50 year old man in a mental institution with amnesia, and can only remember the past week of our life.
There could have been a person who looked just like you, maybe just as smart as you, running around europe 150,000 years ago. Can’t help but wonder what their life was like.