If man was here prior to the last 10000 years, Why are there no detailed and sophisticated written accounts?.?

Question

Did man suddenly become smart enough to write only 10000
years ago, was man stupid or just shy for the eons of prehistoric years before we decided to start writting things down.?

Answer 1

Everything has to begin some time. However, I suppose that there might have been runic writing prior to 10000 years ago. It just wasn't written on a medium durable enough to last until today.

What will a modern paperback book be, 10000 years from now? In that much time, the paper will fall into powder.

Engraved metal will rust away.

But, as I said before, everything begins at some point in time. Man became intelligent enough (in Europe) to devise writing perhaps 100,000 years ago. Maybe little symbols, written with a stick in the dirt preceded portable media such as tree bark with scratched markings on it.

Answer 2

Writing is a fairly new development - language had to develop first, then recognition of abstract symbols. Just like technology today - things come one step at a time. The concept of zero is relatively recent. Besides a large brain you need learning and experience that can be passed along from generation to generation.

Answer 3

There are cave paintings. A written language is a leap forward in man's technology.

Who recorded Genesis? Adam & Eve most certainly couldn't write, and since they were the last creatures created, they didn't witness the previous parts of the creation...

Answer 4

10000 years ago people drew pictures as a form of writing and communication. You can see that on caves that dates back to the last Ice Age.

Answer 5

Think about it you moron. Civilization was required to form before people could sit down together and bother to come up with a universal (locally anyway) written language. Prior to 10K years ago, we were hunter/gatherers. No time to read and write - had to hunt for food and shelter.

Christ, is there no bounds to your followers stupidity and ignorance of history and science?

Answer 6

Why is that so hard to believe when even in our own country 200 years ago most of the population couldn't write?

Answer 7

Don't know, but it is a good question. I don't think man was stupid , literacy has nothing to do with I.Q.
Something must have introduced this form of recording knowledge. I don't think it has ever been researched fully.

Answer 8

Writing things down is a relatively recent thing, stories used to be passed orally

Answer 9

apart from the apartment like stuctures that are 12000 years old in the near east that had access from the ceilings of dwellings, there are thousands of years of people running around spreading there dogma - god-whats the point- nevermind

Answer 10

The written accounts were hidden, lost, and forgotten by man.