6000 years ago is a long time. They used blackberries for communication 

Bell_curve

science

Builders of massive ancient monument understood the science behind their work

siggy47

I liked what Thiel said on Rogan. It was something to the effect of "the unbelievable engineering feats are less interesting than what motivates people to accomplish unbelievable things."

> “I think we have been hesitant to call it science in the past because of prejudice,” Sanjuán says. “We did not see prehistoric societies as capable or worthy of having science.”

Science is a method of gaining certainty which I'd guess emerges from the benefits of certainty like language emerges from benefits of communicating. Maybe I'm nitpicking but it's weird to treat science as if it were a physical object as if its formalization is what brought it into existence.