[dt5702]

I agree. People are people, those in the past didn’t have as much information as we do now but that doesn’t mean they weren’t as sharp.

We do see development in ideas over time, but this is separate to the idea that if we don’t understand what they were doing then it must have been religion. Arguments to religion are a classic trope in archaeology. Although this doesn’t explicitly mention that this is the case, I think it’s worth pointing out that people would have known that all dice were fair, but some were fairer than others.

[de_watcher]

Nowadays you have easier time to actually use hard information: build things faster and have impact. But the soft "information" (the one used to affect people directly) has never gone away, it has diversified and it's going strong.