Tag: Civilized Civilization

Archeologists have been able to paint the basic physical makeup of our ancestors back several millions of years but they can only grasp what their society was like. Hunter-Gatherers, nomadic yes but not how they interacted with one another. I am always struck by the opening scene in the 2001 space odyssey where a band of our supposed ancestors controlled a watering hole from another band of kin. We like to accept this concept of our beginnings simply because we have no other model than our current day existence to base the hypothesis on. Don’t get me wrong I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and its undertones and recommend that everyone see it.