harestonesdown wrote:
I've an arrow besides me right now, Wiltshire flint point held in place with pine resin, willow shaft and fletched with a buzzards feather found on Waden Hill, glue is crushed Bluebell bulb, binding is nettle cord. Match that with one of my bows and i could, with practice, match any Neolithic hunter. I respect their use of material, but let's not kid ourselves they were superior in ANY way, they weren't. IMO. ;)
Picture! Picture! It sounds absolutely great.One thing I'd stress is that they sometimes may have had the edge on us through the fact they may have had donkey's years of doing something. When I worked on a farm as a lad I was struck by how the old hands could do something simple like chucking bales on a truck all day when I got quickly knackered. You learn to do something perfectly by tiny steps over many years I guess.
On the general principle that they were no better or worse or much different from us I agree with you. If a theory says they did so-and-so because they had different thoughts from us it's a double speculation, which is a bit dodgier than a single one.