This ties in well with another thread, one that I started.
Is there any indication of relative intellegence among humans? Having knapped flint, I know how hard it is to make an effiecient edge. To the pass that knowledge (not intellegence, knowledge) also requires intellegence and forethought.
IMHO the creator of the Venus of Willendorf was a intellegent and creative as any modern artist, and those who broke rocks to make edges as intellegent as those who today are breaking atoms and sub-atomic particles.
If tool making gets pushed back, as seems likely to be happening, to even greater depths, say in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of years instead of the tens of thousands of years, would not those earliest tool makers, those creating spears, harpoons and then barbed harpoons be considered as intelegent as anyone alive today?
Aslan is not a Tame Lion