Modern humans have been around for roughly 300,000 years. Civilization, agriculture, cities, writing, and most of the things we associate with modern human life are much more recent.
So what were we doing all that time?
Pigweed and Crowhill start with the Eemian, a warm interglacial period roughly 125,000 years ago when the climate was comparable to, and perhaps warmer than, today’s. If anatomically modern humans were already around, why didn’t they build cities, develop agriculture, or create civilizations?
From there, the conversation ranges through ice ages, changing sea levels, lost archaeological evidence, human adaptation, ancient technology, and the possibility that anatomically modern humans weren’t yet cognitively modern in quite the way we are.
And then, inevitably, it’s off to Conspiracy Corner: lost Eemian civilizations, Atlantis, UFOs, and the possibility that the aliens have actually been humans all along.
Plus: pumpkin beer. Because it’s October.
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