Why does it always seem to surprise researchers to find out that even in prehistoric times people moved around and engaged in trade?
I read the article. No where does it say the researchers where surprised.
I hope people could be more honest here, as well as scientists everywhere.
Scientists should be allowed to discover new evidence and document it, even if it means an old theory is actually wrong. I love to hear new puzzle pieces in my own personal human origins quest. I took archaeology and anthropology in college during the early 1980s, and I can tell you a whole bunch of what was new and cutting edge then is now proved wrong.
I do understand, though. But we shouldn’t become too jaded because of all the liars like big government global warmers and government-approved Covid “experts” (meaning not those doctors who talk about so-called misinformation).
And they have a stroke when it's seagoing trade.
Because they have biases just like anyone else. They look a ancient humans as ignorant savages and living in caves scrounging for food and killing strangers on sight.
While there may have been some of that, humans of post glacial period were intelligent and creative, eventually developing agriculture and industry, producing more than they immediately needed, so the rest was for trade to obtain goods that were not available locally.
We find arrowheads here in NW Florida that are made of flint, but there’s no flint here for hundreds of miles. Seashell jewelry is found hundreds of miles from any ocean where there is flint......................