Being a hunter gatherer is basically the way every species on earth lives ... However, agriculture, husbandry presupposes knowledge of cause and effect, and planning.
The Younger Dryas indeed seem to cut human history in two. What was before, given the impact of the event, seems hard to reconstruct.
That said: there are still people on this earth living the way their ancestors lived for 10.000 years: as hunter gathers.
It is also quite clear that IQ and time-preference are related, meaning, the lower the IQ, the more time preference is geared to what is today.
So, what kind of man proliferated? Those who were very good at hunting and gathering. In this case there is no need for written records, buildings and other permanent dwelling places. Only agriculture requires sedentary settlement.
With this in mind, I would suggest to look at shamans. By altering their consciousness they may have found a way to make this discovery by " accident" as a message from the gods on how to do something to protect the tribe.
Because with what we seem to know now ... these events all took effect in a place where the need was present due to environmental circumstances: like weather.
Think 7 good years, 7 bad years.
For those more inclined to literally take the genesis story, read carefully what happened after the flood. The storyline tells you all of a sudden people played instruments (= instrument making), metallurgy, and other crafts, very specific to certain tribes. You can take knowledge, whether only in mind or also in books, through a cataclysmic event. knowHOW, with the emphasis on HOW, requires doing it and failing at it. Think Edison and the lightbulb. He knows 10.000 ways of NOT making a lightbulb, but only one needed to succeed.
At the very least, readers of the Genesis story will accept the notion that through time, with failure, results come to fruition. And certain things in that process may proof to yield byproducts even more profitable. (remember your own first attempt at gardening?)
And then looking back, such discoveries are mired in the mist of time, how did humankind do that, or discover such ....while all we know for sure: we know how to.
You do not know what you do not know.
Being a hunter gatherer is basically the way every species on earth lives ... However, agriculture, husbandry presupposes knowledge of cause and effect, and planning.
The Younger Dryas indeed seem to cut human history in two. What was before, given the impact of the event, seems hard to reconstruct.
That said: there are still people on this earth living the way their ancestors lived for 10.000 years: as hunter gathers.
It is also quite clear that IQ and time-preference are related, meaning, the lower the IQ, the more time preference is geared to what is today.
So, what kind of man proliferated? Those who were very good at hunting and gathering. In this case there is no need for written records, buildings and other permanent dwelling places. Only agriculture requires sedentary settlement.
With this in mind, I would suggest to look at shamans. By altering their consciousness they may have found a way to make this discovery by " accident" as a message from the gods on how to do something to protect the tribe.
Because with what we seem to know now ... these events all took effect in a place where the need was present due to environmental circumstances: like weather.
Think 7 good years, 7 bad years.
For those more inclined to literally take the genesis story, read carefully what happened after the flood. The storyline tells you all of a sudden people played instruments (= instrument making), metallurgy, and other crafts, very specific to certain tribes. You can take knowledge, whether only in mind or also in books, through a cataclysmic event. knowHOW, with the emphasis on HOW, requires doing it and failing at it. Think Edison and the lightbulb. He knows 10.000 ways of NOT making a lightbulb, but only one needed to succeed.
At the very least, readers of the Genesis story will accept the notion that through time, with failure, results come to fruition. And certain things in that process may proof to yield byproducts even more profitable. (remember your own first attempt at gardening?)
And then looking back, such discoveries are mired in the mist of time, how did humankind do that, or discover such ....while all we know for sure: we know how to.