Wondering about shared interests

Stevie said:

prehistoric humanity

Who isn’t interested in this? I’m no expert but it’s fascinating all the same. 

Since it's prehistory, by definition, there's no historical record.

Which leaves it open to interpretation and speculation based of patchy evidence. Interesting but always subject to revision.

There's some fanciful stuff out there.

But the antikythera mechanism, albeit not prehistory, points to more sophistication than some allow.

People 10,000 or 50,000 were not mentally much different to now. The problem is we have issues to piece it together from what ever scraps survived.

Giants….any belief in those? 

That’s interesting, perhaps these ancient accounts of giants were just really tall everyday people but to the observers seemed unearthly and almost alien. I suppose when transport was limited and new cultures/civilisations met others it would have felt like they were worlds apart in some ways. 

If you reads some accounts from Greek and Roman sources they do mention how tall some peoples were, such as the Germanic tribes and the Scots too, even today there's a height difference between populations, with shorter people tending to come from around the southern Mediteraean and taller people from the north such as Scandinavia and Germany.

There is a medical problem that causes people to keep groing taller, it can be treated but not I think easily.

Many fossils were thought to be of giants, not just dinosaurs, but ice age mega fauna too.

If you reads some accounts from Greek and Roman sources they do mention how tall some peoples were, such as the Germanic tribes and the Scots too, even today there's a height difference between populations, with shorter people tending to come from around the southern Mediteraean and taller people from the north such as Scandinavia and Germany.

There is a medical problem that causes people to keep groing taller, it can be treated but not I think easily.

Many fossils were thought to be of giants, not just dinosaurs, but ice age mega fauna too.

That’s interesting, perhaps these ancient accounts of giants were just really tall everyday people but to the observers seemed unearthly and almost alien. I suppose when transport was limited and new cultures/civilisations met others it would have felt like they were worlds apart in some ways.