In this lecture, we explore the question raised by the eminent British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in his book Prehistory: the Making of the Human Mind, which he terms the “Sapient Paradox”: why the intelligence of homo sapiens does not seem to have made itself manifest for the first 150k years of our history. We also consider the significance of the way we have divided our past into both a “prehistory” and a “history.” The temperature record during the Quaternary Glaciation can be viewed here (Wikipedia).

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