We Evolved Pretty Quickly

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One of these days I'm going to sit down and read a good book on pre-village life among humans--i.e., before we were building permanent or semi-permanent dwellings, maybe the 200kya-100kya range, and see what anthropologists think we were like.

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That is going to be tough. Before we were making semi-permanent dwellings we weren't leaving a lot behind that can be used to infer social structure and lifestyle. Your best bet, in my opinion, would be to study non-human primate social structure.------------------
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we where thought to be like African tribes non-permanent hunters and Gathers.

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Obviously we were hunter/gatherers. What else was there? Farming would show up on the map. Hell, all animals pretty much hunt or gather. So you've said, effectively, nothing.It is wrong to lump all of Africa into "African tribes." The social and economic variations between those hundreds of tribes is enormous.

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I recommend an interesting show on the science channel I think it was called Ice world it explained prehistoric Humans very well.

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Did it? And what makes you think they didn't completely boff it up?------------------
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Surely animals that hunt and animals that gather are behaviouraly distinct both from each other and from animals that both hunt and gather?

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Sure, but look at the context. DC85 qrote: Well, tribes in Africa represent all the above-- hunters, gatherers, and hunter/gatherers, as well as nomadic pastorialists, sedentary agriculturalists and numerous combinations of the above. Saying we were 'like the African tribes' doesn't tell us a damn thing. My quip about all animals hunting or gathering was really just frustration.------------------
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