The assumption has been comfortable and long-standing: creativity is a product of abundance. When ancient humans had enough food, enough warmth, enough security, they had the mental space to innovate.
The assumption has been comfortable and long-standing: creativity is a product of abundance.
When ancient humans had enough food, enough warmth, enough security, they had the mental space to innovate.
Lean times produced lean thinking.
It was a tidy, persuasive story, one that shaped how archaeologists interpreted almost every major prehistoric discovery for decades.
Now, a cave in central China has complicated it considerably.
Chinese scientists suggest harsh environments foster early human creativity
A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age
El descubrimiento de una herramienta de 146.000 años de antigüedad muestra la historia de la creatividad humana
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The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.
A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a…
Un grupo humano extinto logró producir herramientas de piedra cuidadosamente diseñadas durante una dura era glacial.
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Crania Found in Yuxian, Thought to Be at Most a Million Years Old, Are Redated to 1.77 Million Years, Throwing Back the…
The find shows that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.
