Not necessarily ~where~ humans found water – I understand it was lakes, streams, etc. – but our bodies seem so unnaturally built for hunching over a lake and drinking water. We don’t have 4 legs like other animals so we can’t do it very easily and I imagine it would hurt your back to be leaning over water like that. Did they scoop it up with their hands or something? I’m just curious if anyone definitively knows the answer to this. Thanks
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I’m not sure anyone will have a concrete answer for this because I have a hard time believing we definitively know the answer. But scooping seems to be the most ergonomic answer.
We have no way to know for sure.
But, natual human stature and build say it was most likely from a squatting position, either by cupping the hands, or using a leaf, or other rudimentary item for a cup, like chimps.
Around 14,000 BC, we started to figure out pottery, around then were our first early cups. But its safe to say, we were using hollowed out Gourds and animal bones well before that. Some of our earliest tools were probably water containers, most likely made of gourds
Definitively, there is no answer. People used whatever vessels were available to transport water effectively. That includes animal skins, bamboo shoots, clay pots and many other receptacles…Water = life in primitive cultures and they cherish it accordingly.
Used their hands or probably used large leafs or made a simple device to store water. Humans back then were very much stronger and tougher than the average human today. So I am sure a lil bit of back pain didn’t bother them!
Maybe they laid on their stomach to drink or drank from the water while bathing in the river.
Having to bend over or squat probably never stopped us. [Take a look at these photos of giraffes drinking](https://www.google.com/search?q=Drinking+giraffe&client=tablet-android-samsung-nf-rev1&prmd=isvn&sxsrf=APq-WBtQmtEVjPEi-RbqYdxJwNIfFeOi3Q:1645961785309&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimqJu85Z_2AhUMHuwKHZtSCaAQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=1334&bih=800&dpr=1.5).
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Their diet had a lot of water content much like a plant based diet does.
Humans evolved to be upright due to the development of the Gluteus. Bending over and moving around was as totally natural (probably more thanks to our lifestyle) as breathing.
Also, fun fact; we never actually were ‘cave men’. There was three races that existed in those times and humans are the evolutionary result of the mating and mother time
Come on this isn’t hard to imagine. Fill your sink with water and find the most efficient way! You cap water to your mouth when it’s close to the water.
Either used something as a bowl, like half a coconut or just dipped their mouth in the river.
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