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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4269862, member: 93416&quot;]Thanks for the thoughts [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure - Early hominids had big brains for thinking with, so would be intelligent in their own way.&nbsp; Seems that Homo Erectus could light a fire using sticks or stones, and I have doubts I could.</p><p><br /></p><p>But a lot of the surviving hunter gatherer types did not seem to vocalise numbers beyond two or three. I do not take a hard line on that, so would be pretty sure they could do better mentally – but all the same, its hard to see how any but the rare genius would have got very far with maths with that sort of vocalised start line.</p><p><br /></p><p>You ask “So, was our our History correct during those early times?” and my immediate thought is – well - much of it is not even correct for today. “History is a set of lies agreed upon” etc etc</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning past intelligence, I find Herodotus an interesting read on that. He seems to have one foot in the modern world, but the other in a pre-historic one. We owe him a lot for preserving those old tales. It seems to me like maybe those late pre-historic Greeks spoke to each other in something like oblique riddles. If so they were maybe more intelligent than us, in their own way.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to be honest my interest in this thread is mostly to do with the forces I see acting in the present, rather than the past. Contact me off group and I would be more frank on that matter – caveat emptor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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