[mmooss]

> pleistocene

The Pleistocene lasts from 2.58 million years ago, maybe the first time our ancestors figured out tools, to 11,000 years ago, when we Homo sapiens had been around for ~200,000 years. Isn't that too wide a range of humans and ancestors to characterize in one group?

Are you skeptical about 11 kya ancestors doing similar things? Why?

[AlotOfReading]

    Isn't that too wide a range of humans and ancestors to characterize in one group?

Yes, that's one reason why I have high standards for arguments from ethnographic analogy.

    Are you skeptical about 11 kya ancestors doing similar things? Why?

Because modern forager groups have survived for centuries on the margins of colonial states. The environment they inhabit is very different from late pleistocene humans and we should default to skepticism in the absence of other evidence.

[mmooss]

Thanks.